or reduce many of the coercive elements of government. …

question addressed is: can a central government be justified in the context of fiscal federalism on grounds of economic … standpoint of knowledge asymmetry the question of a central government in a federation becomes primarily a story of coordination …

conditions seem to be influenced by contemporaneous World Bank activity. Moreover, the paper tries to explain compliance with … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank …. However, no other political factors seem to influence interruptions and compliance systematically. The paper describes the …

In this paper we consider a standard policy game between the Government and a union. In such a framework, we first …. In particular, we show that a micro-founded union will never find it profitable to co- operate with the Government …

standard policy game between the government and a monopoly union. We stress the shortcomings of the traditional way used to … profitable to cooperate with the government, unless side-payments are considered. The study of this issue is however beyond the …

branch, can ensure credible disclosure of information. The results here suggest a cautious approach to that view. Government … larger government expenditures) and ``conservative" (those prefering smaller expenditures) regimes and auditors evolve over …