Impact of intergovernmental grants on the fiscal behavior of regional authorities in Russia

Publication date
Friday, 20.04.2001

Authors
S. Sinelnikov, P. Kadotchnikov, I. Trounin, E. Schkrebela

Series
CEPRA

Annotation
In the article we dwell upon the problems connected with the impact of interbudgetary relations on the fiscal behavior of regional authorities. Alongside with that we will also regard such parts of interbudgetary relations structure as expenditure and revenue assignment between the Federal Center and the regions (inclusive of setting proportions of tax revenue sharing) as well as its effect with the regional authorities’ fiscal behavior, its influence upon the interbudgetary relations stability, and the mechanism of intergovernmental financial aid to the regions in need.

Contents
Statement of the problem
The description of general model for the regional authorities’ fiscal behavior
The analysis of a simplified model of regional fiscal behavior under regional authorities‘ utility function of Cobb-Douglas type
Empirical Analys
Appendix
Literature

Notes

S.Sinelnikov, P.Kadotchnikov, I.Trounin, E.Schkrebela
Impact of intergovernmental grants on the fiscal behavior of regional authorities in Russia
Moscow, IET, 2001

ISBN 5-93255-041-4

The research and the publication were undertaken in the framework of CEPRA (Consortium for Economic Policy, Research and Advice) project funded by the Canadian Agency for International Development (CIDA).

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