Does fiscal decentralization lead to more efficient governance, better public goods, and higher economic growth? This paper tests Riker''s theory (1964) that the results of fiscal decentralization depend on the level of countries'' political centralization. We analyze crosssection and panel data...

Laws that work well in a country with the rule of law may produce unexpected outcomes in a corrupt environment. We argue that the Russian legal system is impaired by the capture of regional divisions of arbitrage courts, and analyze the consequences of this capture. Using a theoretical model and...