Have State Tax Interdependencies Changed Over Time?

Deskins, John; Hill, Brian

doi:10.1177/1091142110367856

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“…In vocation education field, on the one hand strategic interactions between provinces means policy spillover and policy learning (Benz and Fürst 2002), but on the other hand, such interactions are also the results (Deskins and Hill 2010). Under the leading of the central government, each province adopts special policy according to the conditions of itself and the neighbors.…”

Section: Strategic Interaction and Spatial Diffusionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Spatial Diffusion of Social Policy in China: Spatial Convergence and Neighborhood Interaction of Vocational Education

2015

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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There has been a vast amount of discussion about the positive and negative regional effect on policy diffusion. During this debate, the role of neighborhood structure is ignored and the linear assumption is still prevailing in this field. By analyzing the spatial convergence of local vocational education development with data of 31 provinces from 1995 to 2008 in China, we explore the effects of neighborhood interactions on policy diffusion, paying specific attention to the dynamical role of neighborhood structures in policy diffusion. The empirical results clearly indicate that the development of local vocational education systems in China is spatially autocorrelated to the neighboring provinces. Local vocational education systems converge more slowly if a spatially lagged dependent variable is introduced, while they converge faster if a spatially error variable is introduced. The policy transition between neighbors considering their local spatial context is analyzed with Spatial Markov Chain and a fundamental nonlinear connection between neighborhood structure and policy transition is unveiled. Using spatial econometric models, we also find that the sociospatial diffusion patterns with the social factors such as consumption, urban/rural distribution and occupation serve as barriers to and amplifiers of policy diffusion. These results not only resonate with conventional linear wisdom on policy diffusion but also offer a new nonlinear perspective on socio-spatial patterns of policy diffusion that are clearly embedded within the local neighborhood structures.

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Section: Strategic Interaction and Spatial Diffusionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Spatial Diffusion of Social Policy in China: Spatial Convergence and Neighborhood Interaction of Vocational Education

2015

Appl. Spatial Analysis

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“…5 Moreover, these studies are based on either a tax reaction function or a vote-function framework. The former is employed by Allers and Elhorst (2005), Dubois et al (2007), Edmark and Agren (2008), and Deskins and Hill (2010), whereas the vote-function framework is used in Solé-Ollé (2003), Vermeir and Heyndels (2006), Bosch and Solé-Ollé (2007), and Dubois and Paty (2010). Different models can be used to test the yardstick competition hypothesis (Elhorst and Fréret 2009): (1) a two-equation spatial lag model, (2) a spatial lag model with crossproducts, and (3) a two-regime spatial lag model.…”

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On the Determinants of Local Tax Rates: New Evidence From Spain

Delgado

Peñas

Mayor

2014

Contemporary Economic Policy

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This paper studies the determinants of local tax rates. For the two main local taxes in Spain -the property tax and the motor vehicle tax -we test the existence of tax mimicking, yardstick competition and political trends in a sample of 2,713 municipalities. Using different spatial models, the results support the hypothesis of tax mimicking, with coefficients over 0.40. We also show the relevance of political variables such as the ideology of the incumbents and political fragmentation. The fact that incumbents with weaker political support display stronger mimicking behaviour is interpreted as evidence in favour of yardstick competition. Finally, we find incumbents mimic neighbouring municipalities ruled by the same political party, confirming the political trends hypothesis.JEL Codes: C31, H71, H77

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“…In higher education field, strategic interactions among provinces imply policy spillover and policy learning (Benz and Furst 2002) and are also the results of inter-province competition (Deskins and Hill 2010). As illustrated in Table 2 As illustrated in Fig.…”

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Harmonious expansion of China’s higher education: a new growth pattern

2011

High Educ

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How can one country narrow the regional disparity during the tremendous expansion of higher education? This issue remains unexamined and critical analysis is needed to unveil the spatial dynamics behind expansion of higher education. The spatial analysis shows that there is significant strategic interaction among neighboring provinces in China during the expansion of higher education. It implies that the expansion of higher education intensifies spatial interaction among provinces which facilitates narrowing gap of higher education among provinces in China. The convergence analysis shows that the speed of r-convergence is 1.3% and the average speed of b-convergence is 2.1%, which give robust evidences to support the increasing spatial equalization of China's higher education. Meanwhile, local spatial dynamics analysis shows that the catch-up strategy and cluster growth strategies of China are effective to achieve the balanced expansion goal.

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Have State Tax Interdependencies Changed Over Time?

Cited by 17 publications

References 17 publications

Spatial Diffusion of Social Policy in China: Spatial Convergence and Neighborhood Interaction of Vocational Education

Spatial Diffusion of Social Policy in China: Spatial Convergence and Neighborhood Interaction of Vocational Education

On the Determinants of Local Tax Rates: New Evidence From Spain

Harmonious expansion of China’s higher education: a new growth pattern

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