Competitive versus cooperative federalism: Is a fiscal equalization scheme necessary from an Allocative point of view?

Jahrbucher fur Nationalokonomie und Statistik

Volumn 225, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 259-282

  Arnold, Volker ^a,b,c  

^a Hagen ^*  (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAGEN   (Germany)

^c Volkswirtschaftslehre   (Germany)

Author keywords

Competitive federalism; Cooperative federalism; Fiscal equalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 19844383618     PISSN: 00214027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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