Dietmar Wellisch

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a new answer to the old question about the optimal degree of fiscal decentralization in a federal state, and show that, while the allocative branch of the government benefits from decentralization, it is difficult to obtain a distribution of incomes that differs from the outcome that the market brings along.

TL;DR: In this article, the efficiency properties of allocations when firms and households are mobile and when local governments provide local public goods and local public factors were analyzed, and it was shown that an efficient allocation is obtained if there is no outflow of land rents to absentee owners.

TL;DR: Social welfare in countries with a relatively small number of low-skilled native workers is higher with free trade than with free migration due to redistribution of income towards immigrating workers.

TL;DR: In this paper, the benefits and problems of decentralization and intergenerational problems of local government decentralization are discussed. But the authors do not consider the effect of the degree of household mobility on the efficiency of local governments.

TL;DR: In this paper, the welfare and other effects of immigration on a system of jurisdictions with a common labor market, mobile capital, and redistributive tax/transfer policies were analyzed, and it was shown that the welfare effect of immigration depends on whether immigrants are net fiscal contributors or burdens.