On the interaction between own revenues and intergovernmental transfers : Evidence from Argentinean local governments

In this paper we study the interaction between intergovernmental transfers on the level and the structure of local own revenues. Based on a sample for Argentina’s local governments, findings indicate that transfers facilitate local revenues collection. This “crowding-in” effect is more pronounced in...

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Autores principales: Puig, Jorge Pablo, Porto, Alberto
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2021
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Ciencias Económicas
Intergovernmental transfers
Local tax structure
Argentina
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/169304
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1693042024-08-29T20:08:09Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/169304 On the interaction between own revenues and intergovernmental transfers : Evidence from Argentinean local governments Puig, Jorge Pablo Porto, Alberto 2021-11 2021 2024-08-29T16:42:35Z en Ciencias Económicas Intergovernmental transfers Local tax structure Argentina In this paper we study the interaction between intergovernmental transfers on the level and the structure of local own revenues. Based on a sample for Argentina’s local governments, findings indicate that transfers facilitate local revenues collection. This “crowding-in” effect is more pronounced in urban local governments, with higher population density, poverty and demand for public services. In addition, transfers bias own revenues composition towards less distortionary taxation (i.e., property tax). Interestingly, this bias is stronger for local governments with higher share of indivisible public goods (that are less likely to be finance according to the “benefit principle”). Results are robust to a battery of different estimation methods, and can be rationalized with theory from public finance and political economy as well. As a whole findings might have important policy implications on local governments public finance. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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topic Ciencias Económicas
Intergovernmental transfers
Local tax structure
Argentina
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Intergovernmental transfers
Local tax structure
Argentina
Puig, Jorge Pablo
Porto, Alberto
On the interaction between own revenues and intergovernmental transfers : Evidence from Argentinean local governments
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
Intergovernmental transfers
Local tax structure
Argentina
description In this paper we study the interaction between intergovernmental transfers on the level and the structure of local own revenues. Based on a sample for Argentina’s local governments, findings indicate that transfers facilitate local revenues collection. This “crowding-in” effect is more pronounced in urban local governments, with higher population density, poverty and demand for public services. In addition, transfers bias own revenues composition towards less distortionary taxation (i.e., property tax). Interestingly, this bias is stronger for local governments with higher share of indivisible public goods (that are less likely to be finance according to the “benefit principle”). Results are robust to a battery of different estimation methods, and can be rationalized with theory from public finance and political economy as well. As a whole findings might have important policy implications on local governments public finance.
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title On the interaction between own revenues and intergovernmental transfers : Evidence from Argentinean local governments
title_short On the interaction between own revenues and intergovernmental transfers : Evidence from Argentinean local governments
title_full On the interaction between own revenues and intergovernmental transfers : Evidence from Argentinean local governments
title_fullStr On the interaction between own revenues and intergovernmental transfers : Evidence from Argentinean local governments
title_full_unstemmed On the interaction between own revenues and intergovernmental transfers : Evidence from Argentinean local governments
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