Fiscal Federalism and Political Decentralization: Lessons from Spain, Germany and Canada (Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-local Finance series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1847204678 ISBN 13: 9781847204677

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

This highly original book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. The three key issues required for a well designed financing system are analyzed in depth herein, namely: tax assignment, equalization grants (i.e. redistribution of money from the wealthy regions or the national government to poorer regions) and the role of regional government in the administration of taxes.

Fiscal Federalism and Political Decentralization will be of particular interest to academics and researchers of economics, public economics, public finance and public choice. It will also appeal to politicians and policy makers as well as organizations and agencies related to the economy and fiscal federalism.

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Edited by Núria Bosch, Professor of Public Finance and José M. Durán, Lecturer of Public Finance, University of Barcelona and Institut d’Economia de Barcelona, Spain

Edition details

• Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1847204678
• ISBN 13: 9781847204677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Bosch Núria, Durán José M.