funds under centralization, whereas educational quality improves under decentralization. However, if the government has full … discretion about the tuition fee level, centralization leads to the efficient quality, fully extracting the income gains from the …

example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely, project aid represents a more “centralized” type of aid. According to the theory …' information is more relevant (centralization). The empirical analysis confirms that the importance of donors' private information …

-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization' and ‘centralization' — when ‘knowledge …

decentralized political systems, this study shows that centralization is likely to result in higher accountability if election …

decentralization to centralization can affect both the number and the type of lobbies. Under decentralization, if lobbies form they … will always have an effect on policy decision. Under centralization, if lobbies form, lobby competition may completely …

We propose a theory of tax centralization and inter governmental grants in politico-economic equilibrium. The cost of … the local level. This renders the degree of tax centralization and the tax burden determinate even if none of the … traditional, expenditure-related motives for centralization considered in the fiscal federalism literature is present. If central …