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The paper compares decision-making on the centralisation of public goods provision in the presence of regional externalities under representative and direct democratic institutions. A model with two regions, two public goods and regional spillovers is developed in which uncertainty over the true...
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In this paper we empirically study the preferences of European citizens concerning the allocation of powers between EU and the Member States using Eurobarometer data from 1995 to 2003. Descriptive analysis highlights a ranking of countries according to their level of Europeanism, and a quite...
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We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations' contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...
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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 …
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' information is more relevant (centralization). The empirical analysis confirms that the importance of donors' private information …
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-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization' and ‘centralization' — when ‘knowledge …
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decentralized political systems, this study shows that centralization is likely to result in higher accountability if election …
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Many countries use centralized exit exams as a governance devise of the school system. While abundant evidence suggests positive effects of central exams on achievement tests, previous research on university-bound students shows no effects on subsequent earnings. We suggest that labor-market...
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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 …
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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 …
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