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Table 5 Phasing-out the FES: effect on municipality characteristics

From: Tiebout sorting with progressive income taxation and a fiscal equalization scheme

   

FES effect

 

\(\kappa\)

 

100%

40%

0%

Housing price

p

1

13.331

13.430

19.707

2

13.352

13.396

0.001

Tax rate multiplier

t

1

0.828

0.624

0.935

2

1.137

0.948

1.032

Public consumption

g

1

12.606

12.621

16.192

2

17.407

16.673

10.828

Public expenditure

G/N

1

3.059

3.167

3.717

2

4.573

4.295

0.001

Population

N

1

142.934

132.699

360.000

2

217.066

227.301

0.000

Average income

Y/N

1

97.902

106.669

75.639

2

60.980

57.524

NaN

FES payment

FES

1

− 1.787

− 0.903

0.000

2

1.456

1.936

0.000

  1. “FES effect” (\(\kappa\)) describes to what percentage the fiscal equalization scheme is implemented, relative to the full implementation described in (10) and used in the baseline. The 100%-column is a copy of Table 4. “1” and “2” label the municipalities