Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/90878 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeiträge No. 2014/1
Publisher: 
Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Wirtschaftswissenschaft, Berlin
Abstract: 
Through an intertemporal budget constraint, jurisdictions may gain advantages in tax and spending competition by 'competing' on debt. While the existing spatial econometric literature focuses on tax and spending competition, very little is known about spatial interaction via public debt. This paper estimates the spatial interdependence of public debt among German municipalities using a panel on municipalities in the two largest German states from 1999 to 2006. We find significant and robust interaction effects between debt of neighboring municipalities, which we compare to spatial tax and spending interactions. The results indicate that a municipality increases its per capita debt by 16-33 Euro as a reaction to an increase of 100 Euro in neighboring municipalities.
Subjects: 
public debt
tax and spending competition
municipality data
spatial interactions
spatial panel estimation
JEL: 
C23
H63
H74
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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