Does decentralization exacerbate Chinese corruption? This study uses unique quasi-experiments of “province … corruption, decentralization, and institutional conditions, this study finds that decentralization reduces corruption in China …

governments. The objectives of this study are: (i) To examine and analyze the effect of fiscal decentralization policies on the … found that; (i) the fiscal decentralization policy, as measured through revenue-sharing and government spending on roads … decentralization policy was able to have an impact on the entry of FDI from the explanations regarding the implementation of the fiscal …

The argument over fiscal decentralization and carbon dioxide emission (CO2) reduction has received much attention …. However, evidence to back this claim is limited. Economic theory predicts that fiscal decentralization affects environmental … quality, but the specifics of this relationship are still up for debate. Some scholars noted that fiscal decentralization …

stable autocracy, decentralization reforms depend on a trade-off: centralization allows a higher rate of rent extraction for …, an authoritarian regime captured by the elite will choose to implement decentralization reforms before democratization … welfare of the elite is higher with decentralization than with centralization, while the welfare of the poor median voter is …