Bulletin n. 2-3/2012
October 2012-February 2013
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Baskaran Thushyanthan
    Tax Decentralization and Public Deficits in OECD Countries
    in Publius: The Journal of Federalism , vol. 42, n. 4, Fall ,  2012 ,  688-707
    This article explores the effect of sub-national tax autonomy and sub-national control over shared taxes on primary deficits with panel data for 23 OECD countries over the 1975–2000 period. The results suggest that sub-national tax autonomy has a U-shaped effect on primary deficits. We find that the “average” country in the sample could increase the fiscal stability of its public sector by reducing sub-national tax autonomy. There is also some indication that sub-national control over shared taxes increases fiscal stability, but we obtain this result only if Belgium and Spain are included in the sample.
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