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Horizontal Fiscal Imbalance In The United States

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2014
Regional inequalities are currently a challenge for the majority of countries, in particular large ones, certain of which are federations. The federal state system is more complex than the unitary system. This results in specific problems. One of them is
Kowalik Paweł
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Reforming Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in Argentina

IMF Working Papers, 2003
Argentina has committed itself to a reform of its revenue-sharing system. This paper examines this system and the issues involved in its redesign, and discusses the pros and cons of various options with a view to specifying a preferred approach.
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Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size in Latin America [PDF]

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchanan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential ...
Ernesto Stein
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Fiscal Mechanism for Countering Negative Environmental Externalities

Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
The article analyzes approaches to defining the fiscal mechanism. The authors presented its essence from the perspective of the concept of sustainable development, and also revealed its role in counteracting negative environmental externalities and ...
Viktor Melnyk, Vadym Hrebenozhko
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Balancing fiscal expenditure competition and long-term innovation investment: Exploring trade-offs and policy implications for local governments. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2023
Wenjuan S, Zhao K.
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Medicaid Expenditures and State Budgets: Past, Present, and Future [PDF]

Rapid spending growth has made Medicaid a major element in state budgets; financial support from Federal matching grants is now a main component of state government revenues and of intergovernmental fiscal relations.
David Wildasin, James Marton
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Interstate Fiscal Disparity in State Fiscal Year 1999 [PDF]

, 2004
This paper compares states in terms of their relative fiscal capacity, fiscal need, fiscal comfort, and tax effort in state fiscal year 1999 (FY1999). It is the most recent in a series initiated by the U.S.
Tannenwald, Robert, Turner, Nicholas
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A practitioner's guide to intergovernmental fiscal transfers [PDF]

Intergovernmental fiscal transfers are a dominant feature of subnational finance in most countries. They are used to ensure that revenues roughly match the expenditure needs of various orders (levels) of subnational governments.
Shah, Anwar
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Externalities and Bailouts: Hard and Soft Budget Constraints in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations [PDF]

Central government matching grants can, in principle, induce socially- efficient provision of local public goods that produce spillover benefits. Local underprovision of public goods may however elicit direct central-government provision and finance (a ``
David E. Wildasin
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Fiscal Interactions Among European Countries. Does the EU Matter? [PDF]

We use a panel of European countries to investigate whether or not governments interact with their neighbors when they decide their fiscal policy; we consider both taxes and expenditures, at aggregate and at separate aspects of policy.
Michela Redoano
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