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Decentralization with porous borders: Public production in a federation with tax competition and spillovers
Project funded by own resources
Project title Decentralization with porous borders: Public production in a federation with tax competition and spillovers
Principal Investigator(s) Hintermann, Beat
Project Members Armbruster, Stephanie
Organisation / Research unit Departement Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Public Economics / Public Finance (Hintermann)
Project start 01.01.2016
Probable end 31.12.2019
Status Completed
Abstract

We analyze the strategic interaction of regional and federal governments, using a model that includes fiscal externalities in the form of inter-regional capital tax competition and technical externalities in the form of inter-regional spillovers. The federal government aims to correct for these inefficiencies using a transfer system. If the regional governments are policy leaders (such that federal policy is set conditional on regional choices), they will internalize both fiscal and technical externalities but free-ride on the transfer system. Efficiency can be achieved by introducing a second transfer scheme that is independent of regional public production. If the federal government sets its policy first and can commit itself to it, the outcome is efficient only if matching grants are used that financed outside of the transfer system.

Keywords Fiscal federalism; tax competition; externalities; spillovers; commitment; centralized leadership; decentralized leadership
Financed by University funds
Other funds
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Published results ()

  ID Autor(en) Titel ISSN / ISBN Erschienen in Art der Publikation
4514681  Armbruster, Stephanie; Hintermann, Beat  Decentralization with porous borders: Public production in a federation with tax competition and spillovers  0927-5940 ; 1573-6970  International Tax and Public Finance  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
   

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