From Taxes to Politics, from Politics to Taxes: Evidence of Yardstick Competition in the Italian Municipalities
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Keywords
Yardstick competition; vote popularity function; spatial panel regression;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- C21 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Cross-Sectional Models; Spatial Models; Treatment Effect Models
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
- H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2011-10-15 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-PBE-2011-10-15 (Public Economics)
- NEP-POL-2011-10-15 (Positive Political Economics)
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