On government centralization and fiscal referendums

European Economic Review

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 611-645

  Feld, Lars P ^a   Schaltegger, Christoph A ^b   Schnellenbach, Jan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b Swiss Federal Department of Finance   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Centralization; Fiscal federalism; Fiscal referendums

Indexed keywords

CENTRALIZATION; DECISION MAKING; DEMOCRACY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FEDERAL SYSTEM; FISCAL REFORM; INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POLITICAL ECONOMY;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 42149142034     PISSN: 00142921     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroecorev.2007.05.005     Document Type: Article

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