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Decentralization and local government in Bolivia : an overview from the bottom up

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals …. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and … poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results on the effects of decentralization nationally, and then turn to …

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Do oil windfalls improve living standards?: evidence from Brazil

Caselli, Francesco; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We use variation in oil output among Brazilian municipalities to investigate the effects of resource windfalls. We find muted effects of oil through market channels: offshore oil has no effect on municipal non-oil GDP or its composition, while onshore oil has only modest effects on non-oil GDP...

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Politics in coalition formation of local governments

Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

We analyze empirically the coalition formation of local governments using a novel reduced form econometric procedure that allows for multi-partner mergers. Using Finnish municipal merger data where mergers were decided independently at the local level, we find that merger decisions are largely...

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Do small states get more federal monies?: myth and reality about the US Senate malapportionment

Larcinese, Valentino; Rizzo, Leonzio; Testa, Cecilia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We analyze the relationship between senate malapportionment and the allocation of the US federal budget to the states during the period 1978-2002. A substantial literature originating from the influential paper by ?) finds that small and overrepresented states get significantly larger shares of...

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Governance from below: a theory of local government with two empirical tests

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

I examine decentralization through the lens of the local dynamics that it unleashes. The national effects of … decentralization are simply the sum of its local-level effects. Hence to understand decentralization we must first understand how local …

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The effects of decentralisation on public investment: evidence and four lessons from Bolivia and Colombia

Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralisation on a number of important policy goals. This paper examines the cases of Bolivia and Colombia to explore decentralisation’s effects on government responsiveness and poverty-orientation. I first summarize economic data...

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Electoral Misgovernance Cycles: Evidence from wildfires and tax evasion in Greece and elsewhere

Skouras, Spyros; Christodoulakis, Nicos - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

We present detailed empirical evidence that around Greek elections, misgovernance results in significant increases in wildfires and tax evasion and with important economic implications: the cumulative cost of these effects in recent years has been over 8% of GDP and has therefore been a...

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Local authorities and the downturn: a review of issues, experience and options

Gordon, Ian; Travers, Tony; Whitehead, Christine M. E. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

This report considers the potential/appropriate role for local authorities (LAs) in relation to the downturn phase of the current recession. It focuses on the most valuable functions which they can fulfil in this context, and takes a cautious view about the potential for extending any boost to...

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Assessing the effects of local taxation using microgeographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empirical methodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for...

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The mortgage interest deduction and its impact on homeownership decisions

Hilber, Christian A. L.; Turner, Tracy M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

This paper examines the impact of the combined U.S. state and federal mortgage interest deduction (MID) on homeownership attainment, using data from 1984 to 2007 and exploiting variation in the subsidy arising from changes in the MID within and across states over time. We test whether...

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