Does decentralization exacerbate Chinese corruption? This study uses unique quasi-experiments of “province-managing-county” and “county-power-expansion” reforms in China from 2003 to 2015 to investigate this question. Improving the measures of corruption, decentralization, and...

Consumption and investment are the largest contributors to national income in most countries. Indonesia is one of the countries with the world's largest population, so the largest state revenue comes from consumption and investment, a sector expected to be a driver of the economy. The entry of...

Decentralized taxation and commuting affect numerous dimensions of economic activity, but how they jointly shape residential decisions and spatial income sorting is still not well understood. We develop a structural model of individual location choices in a fiscally decentralized monocentric...

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...