Decentralization with Property Taxation to Improve Incentives: Evidence from Local Governments’ Discrete Choice
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Keywords
property taxation; fiscal competition; political fragmentation; Bayesian analysis; spatial autoregressive model;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Bayesian Analysis: General
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- D78 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Positive Analysis of Policy Formulation and Implementation
- H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DCM-2005-09-17 (Discrete Choice Models)
- NEP-GEO-2005-09-17 (Economic Geography)
- NEP-PBE-2005-09-17 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2005-09-17 (Positive Political Economics)
- NEP-PUB-2005-09-17 (Public Finance)
- NEP-URE-2005-09-17 (Urban and Real Estate Economics)
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