Theory of public finance in a federal state / Dietmar Wellisch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wellisch, Dietmar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Intergovernmental fiscal relations.

Finance, Public.

Decentralization in government.

Federal government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 214 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The central question of this book is whether the assignment of government functions to the individual jurisdictions in a federal state can ensure an optimal allocation of resources and a fair income distribution. The analysis thereby gives a new answer to the old question about the optimal degree of fiscal decentralization in a federal state. It shows that fiscal decentralization is a method to disclose the preferences of currently living and future generations for local public goods, to limit the size of the government, and to avoid excessive public debt finance. While the allocative branch of the government benefits from fiscal decentralization, it is difficult to obtain a distribution of incomes that differs from the outcome that the market brings along.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; CHAPTER 1 Fiscal Decentralization: Benefits and Problems; CHAPTER 2 Locational Efficiency and Efficiency-Supporting Tax Systems; CHAPTER 3 Perfect Interregional Competition; CHAPTER 4 Interregional Tax Competition for Mobile Capital; CHAPTER 5 Optimal Structure of Local Governments; CHAPTER 6 Incentive Equivalence through Perfect Household Mobility; CHAPTER 7 Efficiency and the Degree of Household Mobility; CHAPTER 8 Decentralized Redistribution Policy; CHAPTER 9 Decentralization and Intergenerational Problems

CHAPTER 10 Informational Asymmetry between the Regions and the Center CHAPTER 11 Conclusions; References; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-210) and index.

ISBN:

1-107-11543-4

1-280-16185-X

0-511-11703-5

0-511-01587-9

0-511-15632-4

0-511-32921-0

0-511-61331-8

0-511-05090-9

OCLC:

437063080