J Yu, LA Zhou, G Zhu - Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
Promotion of local leaders in China is decided by their upper-level governments which evaluate their performance based largely on local economic growth. Such a promotion …
F Laloë - American Journal of Physics, 2001 - pubs.aip.org
This article presents a general discussion of several aspects of our present understanding of quantum mechanics. The emphasis is put on the very special correlations that this theory …
L Boetti, M Piacenza, G Turati - FinanzArchiv/Public Finance Analysis, 2012 - JSTOR
All over the world, recent legislative reforms share the goal of increasing fiscal autonomy of lower tiers of governments. The aim of this policy is to reduce vertical fiscal imbalance (VFI) …
F Revelli - International Tax and Public Finance, 2005 - Springer
This paper focuses on the empirical specification of theoretical models of strategic interaction that give rise to a spatial pattern in local government expenditures and revenues …
Despite robust growth in real GDP per capita in the last three decades, US poverty rates have changed very little. We summarize some basic facts about poverty in the United States …