摘要：This paper documents empirical evidence on price-effect caused by unconditional transfers for local governments in Brazil. Dahlby (2011) demonstrates theoretically that lump-sum transfers can reduce the cost of public goods provision (price-effect), in addition to the traditional income effect. Our contributions are threefold. First, we estimate the effects off tax rate changes on tax base. More important, we calculate the marginal cost of public funding (MCF) regarding the local tax imposed on the supply of services (ISS). Third, we control for potential simultaneity between unconditional transfers and local tax revenue in a two-stage least square approach using instrumental variables. Our price-effect estimation for tertiary sector tax suggests that a 10% increase in the amount of unconditional transfers resources reduces the local price effect (MCF) around 0.01%.
其他摘要：This paper documents empirical evidence on price-effect caused by lumpsum grants for local governments in Brazil between 2006 to 2010. Dahlby (2011) demonstrates theoretically that lump-sum grants can reduce the cost of public goods provision (price-effect), in addition to the traditional income effect. Our contributions are threefold. First we estimated semielasticity of the effects of tax rate changes on tax base (−0.016). Second, we calculate the MCF of the local tax imposed on the supply of services (ISS) for Brazilian municipalities (average of 0.04). Finally, we estimate the priceeffect estimation for ISS tax. Our results suggests that for the entire sample, that an increase in R$ 1.00 in per capita unconditional transfers reduces the local price effect (MCF) around 0.07%, but this result is not consistently estimated across all subsamples.
其他关键词：Price effect; income effect; grants; marginal cost of public provision.
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