Equalization Transfers and the Pattern of Municipal Spending: An Investigation of the Flypaper Effect in Germany
We investigate how lump-sum equalization transfers affect expenditures and taxes in the municipalities of the largest German state North Rhine-Westphalia. In general, those general-purpose transfers cannot be treated as exogenous variables. Thus, for the identification of causal effects, two exogeno...
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Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden
2018
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Online Access: | http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-234984 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-234984 http://www.qucosa.de/fileadmin/data/qucosa/documents/23498/Langer_Korzhenevych_Flypaper_CEPIE_18-01.pdf |