Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/73317 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 0105
Publisher: 
Johannes Kepler University of Linz, Department of Economics, Linz
Abstract: 
A recent decision of the German Constitutional Court requires political decision makers to revise the system of intergovernmental transfers in order to limit free bargaining among state and federal government officials. The present paper provides empirical support for the thesis that political discretion has become increasingly important in the transfer negotiations after Unification. We attempt to show why political influences gained weight relative to economic considerations in the determination of net gains. This politicization of the fiscal transfer system appears to be a consequence of the inability of policy makers to agree on a fundamental reform in the early 1990's.
JEL: 
D7
H77
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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