Fiscal Federalism in Transition: Evidence from Ukraine
Fiscal Federalism in Transition: Evidence from Ukraine
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转型中的财政联邦制：来自乌克兰的证据
DOI：
10.1007/s10644-004-1055-3
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2004
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U. Thiessen
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U. Thiessen
乌克兰是一个地区差异较大的国家，财政联邦制对再分配和经济增长的影响进行了分析。由于除了对德国案例的研究之外，几乎没有这样的经验文献，而且由于存在几个潜在的缺陷，因此必须以一种非常试探性的方式来解释结果。我们发现，这个相对贫穷、组织混乱、民主程度较低的国家有效地将收入从相对富裕的地区重新分配到相对贫穷的地区，从而促进了区域经济趋同，甚至抑制了这两类地区的衰退。我们还发现，证据并不拒绝的观点，相对贫困的地区使用的增长有利的方式转移，和文件认为，调查结果可能有影响超出了乌克兰的情况。但这种分析是棘手的，不确定的，只是一个有趣的研究问题的一小步。
Effects of fiscal federalism on redistribution and economic growth are analyzed for Ukraine, a country with large regional differences. Since there is virtually no such empirical literature, except a study of the German case, and since there are several potential flaws, the results must be interpreted in a very tentative way. We find that this relatively poor, disorganized country with little democracy has effectively redistributed income from relatively wealthy to relatively poor regions and thus promoted regional economic convergence, and even dampened the recession in both types of regions. We also find that the evidence does not reject the view that relatively poor regions used the transfers in a growth-conducive fashion, and the paper argues that the findings may have implications beyond the case of Ukraine. But the analysis is tricky, uncertain, and merely a small step to an interesting research issue.