کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
5103716 1480530 2017 30 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Term limits for mayors and intergovernmental grants: Evidence from Italian cities
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
محدودیت های زمانی برای شهرداران و کمک های بین دولتی: شواهد از شهرهای ایتالیا
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
چکیده انگلیسی
We investigate how term limits for mayors influence central government transfers to municipalities. Estimates are based on a dataset of Italian cities over the 1998-2010 period. To credibly identify the influence of term limits, our estimations include mayor fixed effects. We also consider intra-term differences in intergovernmental grants. We provide evidence that electoral incentives distort rather than discipline incumbent mayors' behavior because transfers are higher before an election with an eligible incumbent, in line with the political budget cycle literature. This evidence is also consistent with the idea that the allocation of intergovernmental grants is influenced by lobbying on the part of eligible local government officeholders, as in Borck and Owings (2003).
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Regional Science and Urban Economics - Volume 64, May 2017, Pages 1-11
نویسندگان
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