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

This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from …

This paper shows that the inefficiency of fiscal decentralization in the presence of spillovers, a main tenet of the … decentralization literature, is overturned in a particular transportation context. In a monocentric city where road (bridge) capacity …

decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …

setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …

component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. …