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This paper presents a simple strategic model (defined as a shortsighted game) to highlight the incentives for local governments to allow the exploitation of land in areas not suitable for such exploitation due to environmental or other risks. Municipal discretionary policy inevitably produces...
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empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …
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panel data and apply causal machine learning methods to identify the effects of decentralization on the statutory tax …
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In assessing the desirability for tax decentralization reforms, a dilemma between efficiency and redistribution emerges …, decentralization curbs incentives for excessive subnational spending and enhances fiscal discipline, but may also widen interregional … the optimal degree of fiscal decentralization. We find that tax decentralization can be optimal even under Rawlsian social …
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The fiscal decentralization impulse now sweeping the world often leads to partial decentralization, where subnational … arrangement, the literature contains no economic analysis of a partial decentralization regime in a Tiebout-style model. This …
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The Decentralization Theorem (Oates, 1972) is central to the discussion of fiscal federalism. We revisit the role of … consumption spillovers in evaluating the merits of (de)centralization. Unlike the general prediction, a higher degree of … spillovers may reduce the difference in utility of centralization and decentralization. The non-monotonicity result relates to …
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paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …
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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 …
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This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
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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. …
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