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What Does the European Union Do? [PDF]

Treaty on European Union; political economy; subsidiarity; fiscal ...
Alberto Alesina, Ignazio Angeloni, Ludger Schuknecht   +2 more
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Blocking the Poor: Status Quo Bias in Policy Congruence

Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Research on unequal responsiveness has shown that policies tend to align more closely with the preferences of high‐income citizens than low‐income citizens. Using comparative data on opinions and policies, we suggest that this inequality primarily results from status quo bias; asymmetric blocking power drives unequal congruence rather than ...
Mikael Persson, Anders Sundell
wiley   +1 more source

National Taxation, Fiscal Federalism and Global Taxation [PDF]

fiscal federalism, equalization, development ...
Boadway, Robin
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Is Local Consumer Protection Law a Better Retributive Mechanism than the Tax System [PDF]

, 2010
As Judge Calabresi has argued, preemption decisions are, at their core, a choice about which tier of government should have policy-making authority.
Galle, Brian
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Taking Eco‐Social Risks Seriously: Explaining the Introduction of Compulsory Insurance for Natural Hazards

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Given the ongoing climate crisis, the frequency and severity of natural disasters are increasing. These events result in enormous reconstruction costs, pose a high burden on state budgets, and potentially drive homeowners into private insolvency.
Anne‐Marie Parth
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Fiscal Institutions on Public Finance: A Survey of the Empirical Evidence [PDF]

This paper surveys the empirical research on fiscal institutions of the last three decades. The main results are: (i) Constitutional or statutory fiscal limitations have in most cases proved to be effective in cutting down public expenditure, revenue ...
Gebhard Kirchgässner
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Flaws and myths in the case for Scottish fiscal autonomy [PDF]

, 2006
Paper argues that some of the claimed advantages of fiscal federalism "may not be as robust as asserted by its proponents". The incentive of retained tax revenues would be no greater under fiscal autonomy than under forms of fiscal federalism or ...
Ashcroft, B.K., Christie, C.A., Swales, J.K.   +2 more
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The Local Politics of Social Investment Under Fiscal Constraints: The Case of Childcare Expansion in Germany

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Governments in many of the advanced economies expanded childcare, an exemplary social investment policy, in recent years. Yet, considerable regional variation exists in expansion efforts, and often the supply of childcare still does not match demand.
Erik Neimanns, Björn Bremer
wiley   +1 more source

Problems and Solutions in the Knowledge Economy: Ideational Power in Slow‐Burning Crises

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Societies are grappling with uncertainty about how to adapt to the emerging knowledge economy. Drawing on the public policy literature, we propose a new approach to studying the politics of ideas during long‐term structural changes. We depart from existing scholarship that focuses on the politics of ideas during episodic crises, and instead ...
Martin B. Carstensen, Patrick Emmenegger, Cecilia Ivardi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Federalism, Education-Related Public Good and Growth when Agents are Heterogeneou [PDF]

In this paper we use an endogeneous-growth model with human capital and heterogeneous agents to analyse the relationship between fiscal federalism and economic growth.
Floriana Cerniglia, Riccarda Longaretti
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