Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008
intergovernmental grants on different types of personnel employed by the local governments. On the margin, we find a large, positive … effect of grants on the number of bureaucrats in the central administration, but no effects on the number of personnel in … that bureaucrats are able to, and do indeed, affect the allocation of grants within municipalities to support own goals. …