Government Accountability and Fiscal Discipline: A panel analysis using Swiss data (2006)
Schaltegger , Christoph, Torgler, Benno
Government accountability through electoral engagement, involvement and participation in the political debate can affect government performance. Using data for the full sample of Swiss cantons over...
On Government Centralization and Budget Referendums: Evidence from Switzerland (2001)
LarsP. Feld, Christoph Schaltegger
Unveröffentlichtes Manuskript, Universität St. Gallen, 2001.####
Voters AS A Hard Budget Constraint: On the Determination of Intergovernmental Grants
Lars Feld, Christoph Schaltegger
Recent empirical literature has shown that the determination of intergovernmental grants is highly influenced by the political bargaining power of the recipient states. In these models federal...
Jan Schnellenbach, Lars Feld, Christoph Schaltegger
The paper compares decision-making on the centralisation of public goods provision in the presence of regional externalities under representative and direct democratic institutions. A model with two...