The purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of intermunicipal fiscal cooperation on
municipal public spending, based on the French experience. A model of municipal spending …

Local government's environmental expenditure (LGEE) is critical to ecological protection
and environmental governance, and it has not played its due role. By constructing a …

China's fiscal decentralization has the dual characteristics of revenue decentralization and
expenditure decentralization, and their impacts on green total factor productivity are also …

We analyze whether start-up rates in different industries systematically change with
business cycle variables. Using a unique data set at the industry level, we mostly find …

Through an intertemporal budget constraint, jurisdictions may gain advantages in tax and
spending competition by 'competing'on debt. While the existing spatial econometric literature …

The implicit idea underlying theories of fiscal federalism is that fiscal decentralization can
change the composition of government expenditure. That is, regardless of whether …

Local governments are encouraged to compete in R&D investments and activities in China's
innovation system. We aim to understand the influence of government competition on …

The spatial dynamic panel data (SDPD) model is a standard tool for analysing data with both
spatial correlation and dynamic dependences among economic units. Conventional …

Following the present scale of fiscal imbalances in developed countries, significant fiscal
consolidation will be inevitable in the coming years. Fiscal discipline will require cuts in …

Local expenditures in neighbouring municipalities can be spatially interdependent due to
spillovers, cooperation effects, competition effects or mimicking. In this paper, we aim to test …