Federal finance and fiscal federalism
The two worlds of Canadian public finance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9783129 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard M Bird (0000-0003-0382-3099, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Duan–jie Chen (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 51-74 |
| Publication date | 1998-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Public Administration (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0008-4840 • E-ISSN: 1754-7121 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1754-7121.1998.tb01527.x |
| OpenAlex | W2086012194 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
Canadians are all too aware of such effects of “federal finance” as the impact of federal deficit–cutting on provincial and local governments. Economists have a well–developed theory of “fiscal federalism” that they commonly use to analyse problems of multilevel finance. Are “federal finance” and “fiscal federalism” just different names for the same thing? This paper argues that the two concepts differ in some important key respects and illustrate our argument in terms of marked contrasts in developments at the federal–provincial and provincial–municipal levels with respect to taxes, transfers and borrowing. Sommaire: Les Canadiens ne connaissent que trop bien certaines réalités de la fiscali–té fédérale telles que les effets de lutte anti–deficit du fédéral sur les gouvernements provinciaw et locaux. Les éonomistes ont une thérie bien développée du fédéra–lisme fiscal qu'ils utilisent couramment pour analyser les problémes des finances multi–paliers. En réalité, est–ce que finances fedérales et fédéralisme fiscal ne sont que des noms différents pour désigner la même chose? Nous avanqons dans cet article que les deux concepts diffèrent fortement sur certains points importants; nous défendons notre argument en contrastant ce qui se passe aw paliers fédéral–provincial et provincial–municipal en ce qui concerne les impôts, les paiements de transfert et l'emprunt
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,24 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2018 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |