. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction … regions. To summarize, from a positive viewpoint, decentralization should not be necessarily pursued only in the absence of …

) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …

This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data … that decentralization decreases regional inequalities in general. However, estimations using an interaction variable … approach imply that the effect depends on the level of economic development. While rich countries benefit from decentralization …

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and (2) decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political decentralization as an institutional arrangement for rent-sharing and … decentralization. …

This paper investigates the changing nature of economic integration in China. Specifically, we consider business …