We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We establish and explore the link between the budget’s allocation and nations’ contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and a country’s outside option during budget negotiations is to withdraw its contributi...

The distinct characteristic in James Buchanan’s thinking about federalism in contrast to the traditional theory of fiscal federalism is his view about fiscal competition. In this paper, it is demonstrated that this thinking went through three stages. From the 1950s to the beginning of the 1970s, his analyses were well embedded in the traditional fiscal federalism literature and concerned with e...

Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence In this paper, we consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods, one which benefits mobile skilled workers and one which benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions’ reaction functions for different spending categories. We...

European Asylum Policy Policy towards asylum seekers has been a controversial topic for more than a decade. Rising numbers of asylum applications have been met with ever-tougher policies to deter them. Following a period of policy harmonisation, the EU has reached a crucial stage in the development of a new Common European Asylum System. This paper seeks to shed light on what form this should t...

Article history: Received 29 July 2014 Received in revised form 3 October 2015 Accepted 5 October 2015 Available online 22 October 2015 This paper examines the relationship between tax competition and fiscal equalization in a standard tax competition model with repeated actions, in which regions differ in per capita capital endowments and production technologies. In particular, it asks how a fi...

UNLABELLED The first discovered and sequenced hepatitis C virus (HCV) genome and the first in vivo infectious HCV clones originated from the HCV prototype strains HCV-1 and H77, respectively, both widely used in research of this important human pathogen. In the present study, we developed efficient infectious cell culture systems for these genotype 1a strains by using the HCV-1/SF9_A and H77C i...

This study deals with the academisation or “academic drift” of teacher education in aesthetic subjects Sweden from 1970s to millennium shift. After long preparations that already began after Second World War, TE, along other vocational education, was integrated into Swedish university system as part expansion higher sector 1977 (H77). The study’s aims were describe and analyse how conditions fo...

In composite models where vector bosons (IV*, g) and scalar boson (I-I) are made of the same subconstituents and especially in W-dominance models we show that couplings like HZ?, H77, Hgg can be rather large. As a consequence the decay pattern and the production rates of scalar bosons in e+e-, 77 and hadron-hadron collisions can be completely different from the standard Higgs case. Submitted to...