Title: Fiscal federalism and fiscal decentralization in Europe : comparative case studies on Spain, Austria, the United Kingdom and Italy /
Authors: Lütgenau, Stefan August,
Year: 2014
Subjects: Finance, Public European Union countries; Intergovernmental fiscal relations European Union countries.; Fiscal policy European Union countries
Contents: The Spanish way of fiscal federalism -- Fiscal federalism, Austrian style: fear of competition -- United Kingdom -- Features and trajectories of fiscal federalism in Italy -- New trends in fiscal decentralization: a Spanish view -- The debate on fiscal decentralisation in Scotland -- Italy's piecemeal path towards fiscal federalism: one step forward, two steps back? -- The impacts of the financial and sovereign crises and the budget stability principle on fiscal decentralization in Spain -- Lively fiscal federalism in Austria -- fiction or reality? -- Fiscal federalism in times of financial crisis -- Parallel lives: unsolved problems and reform initiatives in Spanish and German fiscal federalism -- Fiscal decentralization -- trends, unsolved problems and possible reforms in Austria -- The UK's devolution finance debates -- Where do we go from here? Trends, reforms and unsolved problems in European fiscal federalism. The case of Italy.