Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/214435 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CREMA Working Paper No. 2009-08
Publisher: 
Center for Research in Economics, Management and the Arts (CREMA), Basel
Abstract: 
Public debts capitalize into property prices. Therefore, property owners tend to favor tax over debt financing for government spending. In contrast, tenants do not suffer from debt capitalization. Thus, they tend to favor debt over tax financing. Our model of the resulting democratic fight between property owners and tenants over public debts and taxes predicts that the property ownership rate in a jurisdiction negatively effects the debt level. We provide empirical support for this hypothesis by analyzing a cross-section of the 171 communities in the Swiss Canton of Zurich in the year 2000.
Subjects: 
Public Debts
Homeownership
Taxes
Ricardian Equivalence
JEL: 
H74
R51
H00
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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