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The article provides direct empirical evidence on fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected European countries in a period 1995-2012. The research (based on data taken from OECD Fiscal Decentralisation Database and OECD) is performed on a panel, which contains 17 unitary...
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There is a widespread belief that fiscal decentralization is an effective tool for increasing the efficiency of public … expenditures. Decentralization is expected to boost accountability and transparency in the provision of public goods for the well … for the period 1980 to 2012, the study found that expenditure decentralization exerted negative effect on human resource …
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Households may migrate between jurisdictions to secure preferred mixes of collectively sup-plied services and taxation. But devolution of taxes to sub-national jurisdictions could reduce expected tax revenue if some move to lower tax regimes, constraining devolved government policy. This paper...
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decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … innovate and carry out reforms. On the contrary, some authors argue that decentralization increases corruption and government …
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decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … innovate and carry out reforms. On the contrary, some authors argue that decentralization increases corruption and government …
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countries in the degree of fiscal decentralization can contribute to this divergent outcome. Using a large panel of countries …, covering several decades and various fiscal decentralization and natural resource measures, we provide empirical support for …
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This paper examines the role of political alignment and the electoral business cycle on municipality revenues in Greece for the period 2003-2010. A panel dataset combining local and national elections with local budgets is used to run a fixed-effects econometric model. The findings suggest that...
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This article examines fiscal illusions inpublic finance systems where decentralisation involving the introduction of an independent and autonomous component oflocal government funding brings new problems. It presents a synthesis ofthe findings from a Polish empirical study that set out to...
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This paper revisits the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity … argue are strong and consistent instruments for fiscal decentralization. Empirically, we find that indeed both instruments … expenditure or revenue shares - the conventional measures of decentralization - will increase GDP per capita growth by …
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This paper revisits the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity … argue are strong and consistent instruments for fiscal decentralization. Empirically, we find that indeed both instruments … expenditure or revenue shares—the conventional measures of decentralization—will increase GDP per capita growth by approximately 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860646