The Damages of Fiscal Competition in Europe and Alternatives to Anarchy

2016 ◽  
pp. 17-37
Author(s):  
Salvatore Biasco
Keyword(s):  
Fiscal Competition

Social versus Private Insurance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Pestieau ◽  
Mathieu Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
Social Insurance ◽  
Private Insurance ◽  
Population Ageing ◽  
Fiscal Competition ◽  
Public Insurance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Social Risks ◽  
The Family ◽  
Private And Public

This chapter looks at the role of the public versus the private sector in the provision of insurance against social risks. After having discussed the evolution of the role of the family as support in the first place, the specificity of social insurance is emphasized in opposition to private insurance. Figures show the extent of spending on both private and public insurance and the chapter presents economic reasons to why the latter is more developed than the former. Issues related to moral hazard and adverse selection are addressed. The chapter also discusses somewhat more general arguments supporting social insurance such as population ageing, unemployment, fiscal competition and social dumping.

scholarly journals Local Government Competition and Regional Green Development in China: The Mediating Role of Environmental Regulation

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (10) ◽  
pp. 3485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Na Zhang ◽  
Jinqian Deng ◽  
Fayyaz Ahmad ◽  
Muhammad Umar Draz
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Environmental Regulation ◽  
Regional Differences ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Measure Data ◽  
Scale Efficiency ◽  
Fiscal Competition ◽  
Green Development ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Investment Competition

Green development is an important way to meet the challenges of ecological and environmental protection and economic growth, as well as an inevitable choice to realize China’s sustainable development in the new era. The Chinese economic system is such that local government competition has become a key factor affecting regional green development under the current leadership. Based on the inter-provincial panel data of 30 provinces in mainland China from 1997 to 2017, this paper uses the total-factor non-radial directional distance function and slack-based measure data envelopment analysis (SBM-DEA) to measure the green development efficiency of the provinces. Additionally, it also uses the Malmquist–Luenberger (ML) index to decompose green development efficiency and analyzes its internal driving factors. Finally, taking environmental regulation as a mediating variable, this paper empirically analyzes the influence mechanism of local government competition on green development efficiency from three perspectives including growth competition, fiscal competition and investment competition. The study found that: the green development efficiency of Chinese regions showed a downward trend, with significant regional differences; technological progress is the key factor to improve the efficiency of green development, and its role gradually decreases from eastern to western and central regions; pure technical efficiency has become a bottleneck restricting the improvement of green development efficiency, while scale efficiency shows significant regional differences; the growth competition, fiscal competition and investment competition of local government all have a significant inhibitory effect on the efficiency of green development. This paper puts forward policy suggestions supporting enterprise technology research and development, optimizing energy conservation and emission reduction as well as improving the local government performance evaluation system for green development.

scholarly journals Tax Competition – Beneficial or Harmful? How Various Tax Measures Affect the Allocation of Resources?

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adina Violeta Trandafir
Keyword(s):  
Tax Competition ◽  
Fiscal Competition ◽  
Allocation Of Resources ◽  
Public Resources ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

Fiscal competition has been in the news ever since the OECD launched a campaign against “harmful tax competition” in 1996. Nor is it likely to disappear any time soon. Instead, it is likely to intensify, as more and more governments resort to lower taxes to stimulate their economies. Is all tax competition harmful, or is it possible to distinguish between harmful and beneficial tax competition? In this paper, in its first part, I try to present the difference between benefit and harmful tax competition. Also, the paper try to establish how really is tax competition – “harmful” or “beneficial”. The second parts of this paper analyze the impact and efficiency of different tax measures in allocation of public resources.

scholarly journals Illegal Immigration and Fiscal Competition

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhayu Bandyopadhyay ◽  
Santiago M. Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
Fiscal Competition
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