Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations
These essays on the economics of fiscal federalism contain original research by experts in North America and Europe on a timely topic. Reform of fiscal relations between central and subnational governments is an urgent priority in many countries since increased economic integration within and among countries means that goods, services, capital, and human resources can flow across political boundaries more easily than before. The structure of intergovernmental transfers, tax competition, and the fiscal implications of labor migration are analyzed for audiences in economics, political science, and public policy.
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Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations
These essays on the economics of fiscal federalism contain original research by experts in North America and Europe on a timely topic. Reform of fiscal relations between central and subnational governments is an urgent priority in many countries since increased economic integration within and among countries means that goods, services, capital, and human resources can flow across political boundaries more easily than before. The structure of intergovernmental transfers, tax competition, and the fiscal implications of labor migration are analyzed for audiences in economics, political science, and public policy.
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Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations

Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations

by David A. Wildasin (Editor)
Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations

Fiscal Aspects of Evolving Federations

by David A. Wildasin (Editor)

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These essays on the economics of fiscal federalism contain original research by experts in North America and Europe on a timely topic. Reform of fiscal relations between central and subnational governments is an urgent priority in many countries since increased economic integration within and among countries means that goods, services, capital, and human resources can flow across political boundaries more easily than before. The structure of intergovernmental transfers, tax competition, and the fiscal implications of labor migration are analyzed for audiences in economics, political science, and public policy.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780521563826
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/13/1997
Edition description: New Edition
Pages: 242
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Contributors; Part I. Introduction: 1. Introduction David E. Wildasin; 2. Fiscal aspects of evolving federations: issues for policy and research David E. Wildasin; Part II. Theoretical Issues: 3. Efficiency and the optimal direction of federal-state transfers Robin Boadway and Michael Keen; 4. Interregional redistribution through tax surcharge Helmuth Cremer, Maurice Marchand and Pierre Pestieau; 5. Decentralized public decision making: the moral hazard problem Claude d'Aspremont and Louis-André Gérard-Varet; 6. Migration and income transfers in the presence of labor quality externalities Harry Huizinga; 7. Strategic provision of local public inputs for oligopolitistic firms in the presence of endogenous location choice Uwe Walz and Dietmar Wellisch; Part III. Policy and Practice: 8. The structure of urban governance in South African cities Junaid Ahmad; 9. Computable general equilibrium in local public finance and fiscal federalism: applications to local taxation, intergovernmental aide, and education vouchers Thomas Nechyba; 10. 'One people one destiny': centralization and conflicts of interest in Australian federalism Jeffrey D. Petchey and Perry Shapiro; Index.
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