Bulletin n. 1/2013
June 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
    • Xavier Calsamiglia, Teresa Garcia-Milà, Therese J. McGuire
    Tobin meets Oates: solidarity and the optimal fiscal federal structure
    in International Tax and Public Finance , volume 20 n.3 ,  2013 ,  450-73
    We explore the implications for the optimal degree of fiscal decentralization when people’s preferences for goods and services—which classic treatments of fiscal federalism (Oates in Fiscal federalism, 1972) place in the purview of local governments—exhibit specific egalitarianism (Tobin in J. Law Econ. 13(2): 263–277, 1970), or solidarity. We find that a system in which the central government provides a common minimum level of the publicly provided good, and local governments are allowed to use their own resources to provide an even higher local level, performs better from an efficiency perspective relative to all other systems analyzed for a relevant range of preferences over solidarity.
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