Financing Federal Systems: The Selected Essays of Edward M. Gramlich (Studies in Fiscal Federalism and State-Local Finance)

This text provides 23 of Edward M. Gramlich's essays. He has contributed greatly to the area of public finance and macroeconomics over three decades of economics thinking. The essays deal with models of state and local government behaviour in terms of fiscal federalism. The book features empirical, theoretical and diagnostic work and involves comprehensive evaluations of the fiscal federalism systems in the United States, Australia, Sweden and Canada. In his introduction, the author also provides a clear overview of the current issues in fiscal federalism.