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Incentives to provide local public goods: fiscal federalism, Russian style

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  • Ekaterina Zhuravskaya

    () (Russian European Center for Economic Policy and Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics)

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Based on a unique data set on Russian city budgets, this paper shows that revenue sharing between regional and local governments provides local governments with no incentive to increase tax base or provide public goods. Any change in local government’s own revenues is almost entirely offset by changes in shared revenues. This leads to governmental over-regulation of private businesses. It is shown that fiscal incentives are a determinant of the formation of private business and the efficiency of public goods provision. The Russian federalism is compared to the Chinese federalism, where fiscal incentives reputedly are stronger in many provinces.

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Paper provided by Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) in its series Working Papers with number w0001.

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Length: 32 pages
Date of creation: Jan 2000
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Handle: RePEc:cfr:cefirw:w0001

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Keywords: Federalism; Russia; Local government; Transition;

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