This study examines the effect of fiscal decentralization between states and their local governments on the financial condition of municipal governments. There are strong theoretical arguments on both sides of the federalism debate about the benefits for and against decentralization. Most of the research...
An extensive literature analysed the impact of upper tier transfers on spending behaviour of lower level governments finding evidence of a flypaper effect , an overreaction to varying grants from upper tiers. Our work seeks to supplement a dearth of evidence for the Italian case by focusing on the...
How does federalism affect the economy? How does geography influence economic development? How does the GDP help determine the economic health of a nation? How do businesses help a country's economy? What are the causes and consequences of underemployment? How can censorship negatively affec...
Fiscal federalismAn extensive literature analysed the impact of upper tier transfers on spending behaviour of lower level governments finding evidence of a flypaper effect , an overreaction to varying grants from upper tiers. Our work seeks to supplement a dearth of evidence for the Italian case by...
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The traditional environmental federalism school, represented by Oates (2002) [9], believes that the decentralized regulatory environment will produce the phenomenon of “competition to the end” under the system of fiscal decentralization. To retain promising enterprises, local governments will usually ...
On the one hand, customs taxes are a significant source of public revenue, as is the case for Value-Added Tax (VAT), which is generally the main source of revenue for governments in the region. Furthermore, customs tariffs run the risk of being used as a tool to protect domestic ...
Combined with the characteristics of the Chinese environmental regulation supervision system and evolutionary game theory, the spillover effect of local governments’ investment behaviour has been incorporated into their payment function to study the influence of spillover on the strategy choice of local ...
The effects of COVID-19 on EU federalism. East. J. Eur. Stud. 2021, 12, 126–148. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Meidute-Kavaliauskiene, I.; Yıldız, B.; Çiğdem, Ş.; Činčikaitė, R. The effect of COVID-19 on airline transportation services: A study on service...
Combined with the characteristics of the Chinese environmental regulation supervision system and evolutionary game theory, the spillover effect of local governments’ investment behaviour has been incorporated into their payment function to study the influence of spillover on the strategy choice of local ...