"The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this. You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. This paper provides an overview of an economics-based perspective on the financial aspects of state and local public pensions in the...

The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze the impact of the Intergovernmental transfer (Balance Fund) and Local Own Revenue to the local government expenditure as well as to know the occurrence of flypaper effect phenomenon in the relationship between those variables. This study is...

Der föderale Verteilungswettbewerb zwischen Landes- und Kommunalebene macht eine Messgröße erforderlich, die für eine angemessene Finanzausstattung und eine „vertikale Symmetrie“ sorgt. Ein solcher empirisch bestimmter Indikator stützt sich jedoch auf eine Reihe von Annahmen, die in der...

Land assets have become an important source of financing capital investments by subnational governments in developing countries. Land assets, often with billions of dollars per transaction, rival and sometimes surpass subnational borrowing or fiscal transfers for capital spending. While reducing...

In the past three decades, emerging countries have gone through extensive decentralization reforms. Yet, there are no studies assessing quantitatively the relative importance of various factors known to affect the success of decentralization. This paper builds on a comprehensive dataset the...