Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75584 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 333
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Several recent studies suggest that equalizing transfers in a federal system may distort the tax policy decisions of states. We study this issue for the German federal fiscal system. In a simple theoretical model, we first identify a substitution and an income effect of equalizing transfers. Our main hypothesis is that both effects should tend to reduce tax revenue of German states. We perform various empirical tests which confirm this hypothesis.
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Working Paper
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