Setting House Taxes by Italian Municipalities: What the Data Say

Fabio Padovano

Chapter Chapter 6 in Italian Institutional Reforms: A Public Choice Perspective, 2008, pp 89-115 from Springer

Abstract: This paper addresses the econometric issues related with spatial estimation in the context of the property tax set by Italian municipalities in 1993-2001. Using a comprehensive dataset of Italian cities, the paper finds that there are no significant differences in tax rates set by municipalities. Key words: Local property tax; Strategic interactions among governments; Yardstick competition; Spatial auto-correlation.

Keywords: Reaction Function; Strategic Interaction; Term Limit; Yardstick Competition; Fiscal Variable (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008
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DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-72141-5_6

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