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Intergovernmental Grants as Signals and the Alignment Effect: Theory and Evidence
Social Science Research Network, 2015 This paper provides a simple political agency model to explain the effect of political alignment between different tiers of government on intergovernmental grants and election outcomes.
Emanuele Bracco +3 more
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European Journal of Spatial Development, 2014 The article analyses grant allocation from central governments to municipalities in Greece during the period 2003-2010. A quantitative analysis is based on two simple models that include normative socioeconomic and institutional factors.
Konstantinos J. Hazakis +1 more
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Effectiveness of Intergovernmental Grants: A Systematic Literature Review
Economics, Business, Accounting & Society ReviewThis article aims to analyze the effectiveness of intergovernmental grants. Although the government has provided grants to various entities, including intergovernmental ones, there has yet to be a comprehensive study that illustrates the effectiveness of
Fitriadi Fitriadi +3 more
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Optimal Design of Intergovernmental Grants under Asymmetric Information [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 This paper develops a theoretical explanation why it may be optimal for higher-level governments to pay categorical block grants or closed-ended matching grants to local governments.
Huber, Bernd, Runkel, Marco
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Political economy of intergovernmental grants
, 2006 Esta tesis investiga la economía política de las transferencias intergubernamentales. Se centra en los factores políticos que determinan la asignación de fondos bajo control de gobiernos centrales a las diversas regiones. El primer capítulo, contribuye a este asunto a través de un nuevo análisis de los datos del panel y una medida comprensiva de ...
Elena Jarocińska
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Intergovernmental equalization grants: some fundamental principles. [PDF]
, 2004 Propositions related to intergovernmental equalization grants are always implicitly or explicitly derived from one model of government or another. The paper assumes that governments are competitive organisms.
Breton, Albert, Fraschini, Angela
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On the Political Determinants of Intergovernmental Grants in Decentralized Countries: The Case of Spain [PDF]
, 2013 This paper studies the effect of political variables on the gains obtained by Spanish regions in periodical bargaining of the intergovernmental financing agreements and on the regional distribution of discretional earmarked grants over the period 1987 ...
Lago Peñas, Santiago +2 more
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Intergovernmental grants and fiscal competition
, 2009 This theoretical paper shows how a central government can induce a policy concerning a municipal matter through a package of a policy requirement and a grant. We find that, due to fiscal competition and the possibility for citizens to move between municipalities, the central government can make all municipalities adopt the policy requirement despite ...
Niklas Jakobsson, Katarina Nordblom
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An Implicit Contract Theory of Intergovernmental Grants
CrossRef Listing of Deleted DOIs, 1990 A central puzzle in the economic analysis of intergovernmental grants in a federal polity is the conflict between the predictions of the standard theory and empirical observation. Standard theory has no explanation for the widely observed fact that "money sticks where it hits, " that is, for the "'flypaper effect" from specific, non-matching grants ...
Geoffrey Brennan, Jonathan Pincus
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