Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39709 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
BERG Working Paper Series on Government and Growth No. 38
Publisher: 
Bamberg University, Bamberg Economic Research Group on Government and Growth (BERG), Bamberg
Abstract: 
The paper derives a normative model for partial fiscal equalisation based on a number of axioms and makes special allowance for the existence of a specific fiscal need in the jurisdictions. A simple version of this idealised equalisation scheme relates net contributions to the equalisation funds to deviations of a jurisdiction's gross income from average gross income and a jurisdiction's specific needs from average specific needs. The theoretical model is then empirically tested for the case of the European Union using data from 1986-97. It is found that most restrictions of the model appear to hold, in particular, relatively richer countries contribute more and those with greater fiscal needs, approximated by the importance of the agricultural sector, pay less. However, in the EU, an adjustment of net payments to changes in the actual importance of the specific fiscal need for a country is lacking.
Subjects: 
Fiscal Equalisation
European Union
JEL: 
H77
H87
ISBN: 
3931052249
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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