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Fiscal Federalism, Public Finance of the Federal State, Regions and Communities
This field gathers together theoretical and applied works. We can distinguish three main sub-fields:
1. Fiscal Federalism Theory
This first sub-field deals with theoretical questions related to financial federalism and fiscal competition.
The theoretical works are devoted to autonomy's questions as well as coordination, harmonization and fiscal competition with strategic interactions.
2. Federal Public Finance
The center has devoted a special insight for the Federal State linked to fiscal and institutional reforms (competencies' redistributions to sub-federal entities).
The development of regional data panels of the main federal taxes and setting up of tax revenues micro-simulator are still two main tasks of the center. These tools allow us to measure the consequences of an institutional reform as well as the impacts of federal economic policies on sub-federal entities' resources.
3. Regional and Community Public Finance
Since the beginning of the 90's, the center's interests have been particularly devoted to French-speaking sub-federal public finance. The main works consist of setting-up and developing sub-federal tools in order to simulate and forecast different public finance's scenarios at different sub-federal levels (Walloon and Brussels' region, French-speaking and German-speaking community, and French-speaking community commission).
Other analyses are also undertaken in the center such as sub-federal budgets' comparisons, social and economical policy's impacts on budgetary decisions and particular analyses of regional taxes.
Research Units involved
Running projects (7)
- Reforming the Regions and Communities Special Financing Act
(since 2009)
Alexandre DE STREEL, Robert DESCHAMPS, Christophe ERNAELSTEEN, Michel MIGNOLET, Marie-Eve MULQUIN, Valérie SCHMITZ, Bastien SCORNEAU - Interregional transferts in Belgium
(since 2000)
Marc LANNOY, Michel MIGNOLET, Marie-Eve MULQUIN - Financial study about public finance of Belgian Communities and Regions, budgetary analysis and prospects of the federate entities of Belgium (horizon of time 10 years) and comparisons of the public spending of Communities and Regions
(since 1998)
Valérie SCHMITZ, Bastien SCORNEAU, Sébastien THONET, Alexandre DE STREEL, Robert DESCHAMPS - Regionalisation of federal spendings
(since 1997)
Michel MIGNOLET, Marie-Eve MULQUIN, Alex REUTER - Personal income tax : regional analysis and micro-simulations
(since 1997)
Christophe ERNAELSTEEN, Michel MIGNOLET, Marie-Eve MULQUIN - Estimation of regional revenues of indirect taxation
(since 1997)
Alex REUTER, Marie-Eve MULQUIN, Michel MIGNOLET - Corporate income tax: regional analysis and micro-simulations
(since 1997)
Pascale POUSSET, Michel MIGNOLET, Marie-Eve MULQUIN
Terminated projects (11)
- Evaluating the level of belgian public spendings in the area of employment policy
(2005-2007)
Simon COLLET, Robert DESCHAMPS - Evaluating the level of public spending in the area of employment policy (Région wallonne)
(2004-2005)
Simon COLLET, Robert DESCHAMPS - Building a macro-simulation tool for the German speaking Community of Belgium (com.germanophone)
(2003-2005)
Robert DESCHAMPS, Régine PAQUE - Time series of the cultural public spendings of the french Community (1981-2001) (séries chron)
(2002-2004)
Robert DESCHAMPS, Régine PAQUE - Evaluating the level of public spending in the area of continuous and vocational training
(2002-2007)
Géraldine WEICKMANS, Robert DESCHAMPS - Evaluating the level of public spending in the area of continuous and vocational training
(2001-2002)
Géraldine WEICKMANS, Robert DESCHAMPS - Recherche relative à la répartition régionale des cotisations et prestations de sécurité sociale sur la période 1985-1995
(1997-1999)
Michel MIGNOLET, Marie-Eve MULQUIN, Laurence VIESLET - Financial aid to higher education students in French Community of Belgium. Financing of primary and secondary education
(1997-1998)
Jean-Benoit CHARLES, Robert DESCHAMPS - Regional Accounts for Wallonia
(1994-1998)
Catherine DESSAMBRE, Bernard FRIPIAT, Michel MIGNOLET, Marie-Eve MULQUIN, Laurence VIESLET - Ventilation des dépenses régionales de chômage et parachômage : étude sur les années 1951 à 1992
(1993-1994)
Laurence BURLET, Jean-Charles JACQUEMIN, Michel MIGNOLET, Marie-Eve MULQUIN - Tax incentives, financial structures and public finance
(1992-1999)
Marcus DEJARDIN, Muriel HOOGSTOEL, Michel MIGNOLET, Pierre PICARD
