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Budget Institutions and Government Effectiveness
Dahan, Momi - 2017
Do budget institutions play a role in explaining why government effectiveness is higher in some advanced countries than in others? Employing an original panel dataset that spans four different years (1991, 2003, 2007 and 2012) we find that budget centralization has a negative and significant...
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Decentralization and Natural Disasters
Goodspeed, Timothy - 2013
This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083868
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Information Transmission and Ownership Consolidation in Aid Programs
Dreher, Axel - 2013
This paper explores the role of information transmission in explaining donors' choice between project aid and budget support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013073609
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Information Transmission within Federal Fiscal Architectures : Theory and Evidence
Dreher, Axel - 2013
explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization' and ‘centralization' — when ‘knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision-making controls the degree of decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075612
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New Evidence on Fiscal Decentralization and the Size of Government
Fiva, Jon H. - 2006
This paper adds to the literature by utilizing improved data on tax revenue decentralization to re-examine the … relationship between fiscal decentralization and the size of government. An econometric analysis using panel data from 18 OECD … countries shows that fiscal decentralization matters for both the size and composition of government spending. Tax revenue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783397
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Government Decentralization as a Disincentive for Transnational Terror? An Empirical Analysis
Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2021
decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316345
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The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization - A Cross-Country Assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2021
principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining … degrees. This study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316441
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How Do Local Governments Decide on Public Policy in Fiscal Federalism? Tax vs. Expenditure Optimization
Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2008
Previous literature widely assumes that taxes are optimized in local public finance while expenditures adjust residually. This paper endogenizes the choice of the optimization variable. In particular, it analyzes how federal policy toward local governments influences the way local governments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770444
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How to Tame Two Leviathans? - Revisiting the Effect of Direct Democracy on Local Public Expenditure
Galletta, Sergio - 2012
We explore how the vertical structure of direct democracy in a federal context affects expenditure decisions of sub-central governments. In so doing we revisit previous research on the effect of direct democratic institution on public policies. Particularly, the effect of upper-level (state)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098336
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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989025