Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/39520 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
ZEI Working Paper No. B 15-2000
Publisher: 
Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Zentrum für Europäische Integrationsforschung (ZEI), Bonn
Abstract: 
We provide empirical estimates of the risksharing and redistributive properties of fiscal equalization among the states of the German federation. Fiscal equalization serves as a mechanism to insure state budgets against asymmetric revenue shocks, but provides almost no insurance against regional income shocks. Equalization responds only weakly to income differentials but strongly to tax revenue differentials across states. A further result is that the correlation of state tax revenues with state GDPs has declined over time. This may reflect a weakening in state tax efforts in response to the adverse incentive effects of fiscal equalization.
Subjects: 
Regional Risk-sharing
Fiscal Federalism
Monetary Union
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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