This paper investigates how non-tax revenues impact tax collection in Brazilian
municipalities, focusing on shifts in intergovernmental transfers due to population updates …

This paper offers a comprehensive and updated review of the effects of intergovernmental
grants. We focus on the main findings in the existing literature on the effects of …

Our purpose is three-fold. First, we summarize some of the core insights from both classic
and more recent papers in the literature on the role of intergovernmental grants in systems of …

What is the overall effect of intergovernmental grants on local public finance? While previous
studies show an asymmetric effect of changes in intergovernmental grants on local taxation …

This paper examines how a shock to the distribution of federal transfers to Mexican
municipalities affects their demand for long-term loans aimed at funding productive …

We study the impact of fiscal revenue shocks on local fiscal policy. We focus on the very
volatile revenues from the immovable property gains tax in the canton of Zurich, Switzerland …

How freely can local jurisdictions change their taxes and spending? I propose an empirical
test of the effective degree of municipal fiscal autonomy by studying fiscal adjustments to a …

We study the economic effects of transfers to local governments using a reform of the Finnish
municipal grant system as a source of exogenous variation. We find that higher grants lead …

This study leverages the Indiana Toll Road lease and the distribution of its $3.8 billion
proceeds as a natural experiment to investigate the long-term effects of transitory …

I exploit unusual policy variation in Indonesia to examine how local responses to
intergovernmental grants depend on their persistence. A national reform produced …