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The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization - A Cross-Country Assessment

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2021

effects of federalism by drawing on a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a … principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining … that institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables in different …

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Information Aggregation in Democratic Mechanisms

Britz, Volker - 2016

We examine whether and how democratic procedures can achieve socially desirable public good provision in the presence of profound uncertainty about the benefits of public goods, i.e., when citizens are able to identify the distribution of benefits only if they aggregate their private...

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Constitution on Ice

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2021

This paper reports recent events in Iceland where the political agents of oligarchs didn‘t even bother to try to influence, let alone contest, a national referendum on a new constitution because, if they didn‘t like the result, they would simply find ways to nullify the outcome ex post. The...

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Educational Federalism and the Quality Effects of Tuition Fees

Kemnitz, Alexander - 2010

This paper investigates how the abolishment of a ban on tuition fees affects the quality of higher education with centralized and decentralized decision making. It is shown that a marginal introduction of tuition fees fully crowds out public funds under centralization, whereas educational...

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Decentralization and Foreign Aid Effectiveness : Do Aid Modality and Federal Design Matter in Poverty Alleviation?

Lessmann, Christian - 2014

This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we examine a commonly used empirical growth model, considering aid modality as well as different measures of political and fiscal decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that...

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Federalism and Accountability with Distorted Election Choices

Kessing, Sebastian G. - 2009

Random factors such as bad weather or exogenous economic shocks affect the re-election of politicians and can reduce accountability. Such distorted election choices interact with the architecture of government. Contrasting centralized with decentralized political systems, this study shows that...

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Ex-Post Redistribution in a Federation : Implications for Corrective Policy

Koethenbuerger, Marko - 2006

This paper analyzes whether changes in the timing of equalizing transfers to state governments necessitate an adjustment in federal corrective policy. According to the existing literature (assuming an ex-ante choice of transfers), the corrective grant is equal to the marginal damage/benefit...

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Heterogeneity, Vetoes, and Exit Clauses in Federal Systems

Huysmans, Martijn - 2018

The vast majority of federations lack exit clauses. Existing theoretical explanations of this stylized fact focus on issues of credible commitment, signaling, and the risk of strategic exploitation. However, such accounts are unable to explain the adoption by the European Union (EU) of Article...

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Trade Liberalization and Environmental Taxation in Federal Systems

Fredriksson, Per G. - 2014

The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...

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Power Over Prosecutors Corrupts Politicians : Cross Country Evidence Using a New Indicator

van Aaken, Anne - 2008

It is hypothesized that prosecution agencies that are dependent on the executive have less incentives to prosecute crimes committed by government members which, in turn, increases their incentives to commit such crimes. Here, this hypothesis is put to an empirical test focusing on a particular...

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