Local Government Fiscal Burden in Nonmetropolitan America1

State and Local Government Choices in Fiscal Redistribution

Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez–Vazquez, & Sally Wallace The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, Atlanta GA, 30303 Abstract Economists have devoted relatively little attention to explaining why some state and local governments choose more progressive fiscal instruments than others. This paper provides an empirical model to identify the determinants of income redistribution...

Fiscal Federalism in the UK: How Free is Local Government?

points z z The UK system of government is one of the most centralized in the developed world. As a result, local governments have very few powers when it comes to tax regulation, while their policy choices are constrained by tightly controlled expenditure mandates. z z Nevertheless, there is evidence that local party control does matter. A switch from Conservative to Labour Party control usuall...

Fiscal Centralization of Indiana State and Local Government

Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size

This paper explores the link between fiscal decentralization and government size in Latin America. While most related work attempts to test Brennan and Buchannan's "Liviathan" hypothesis, here the emphasis is placed on a different channel: the potential for decentralization to aggravate the common pool problem. In addition to the degree of expenditure decentralization, we consider the importanc...

Fiscal Decentralization and Government in Latin America.PDF

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