Congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Are National Transfers Crowding Out Provincial Tax Revenues in Argentina?
Reunión:
Congreso; 49º Reunión Anual de la Asociación Argentina de Economía Política; 2014
Institución organizadora:
Asociación Argentina de Economía Política
Resumen:
Recent papers focused on the problem of weak fiscal incentives arising from imperfect
interjurisdictonal arrangements which in turn distorted the fiscal federal scenario, as
shared revenues dwindled following a subnational tax collection´s improvement.
Verification of similar hypotheses gathers interest in Argentina, given both discretionary
transfers´ incidence in provincial budgets and the stagnation shown by provincial tax
collections. The econometric analysis carried out with a panel data model yielded
evidences of crowding out effects whose magnitude was smaller than expected;
nevertheless, other costs should be added to financial autonomy loss due to discretionary
transfers, as for instance a greater provincial dependency from the central government.