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Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth : survey and meta-analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014
decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … innovate and carry out reforms. On the contrary, some authors argue that decentralization increases corruption and government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010412862
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Decentralizing for a deeper democracy and a more supple state
Faguet, Jean-Paul; Fox, Ashley; Pöschl, Caroline - 2015
Well-designed decentralization can deepen democracy and strengthen the state in five key ways. Decentralizing below the … of authority" critique is mistaken; decentralization transforms the state from a simpler, brittler command structure to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012261791
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Impact of income inequality and fiscal decentralization on public health : evidence from China
Yu, Hao; Liu, Jiahui; Lu, Zhi-Nan; Shi, Ruijie; Wu, Haitao - In: Economic modelling 94 (2021), pp. 934-944
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012695599
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Fiscal federalism and income inequality : an empirical analysis for Switzerland
Feld, Lars P.; Frey, Christian; Schaltegger, Christoph A.; … - 2018
setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942832
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Optimal fiscal decentralization : redistribution and welfare implications
Aslim, Erkmen Giray; Neyaptı, Bilin - In: Economic modelling 61 (2017), pp. 224-234
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Public finance, government spending and economic growth : the case of local governments in Italy
Agasisti, Tommaso; Barra, Cristian; Zotti, Roberto - 2020 - This version: October 2020
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Tax reform, fiscal decentralization, and regional economic growth : new evidence from China
Yang, Zhou - In: Economic modelling 59 (2016), pp. 520-528
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State capacity, national economic policies and local development : the Russian state in the Southern Urals
Asmus, Gerda; Franck, Raphaël - 2022
This study analyzes how state capacity shapes the local impact of national policies by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the regional expansion of the state. It uses the local discontinuity created by the boundary of the largest peasant rebellion in 18th century Russia where the state...
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Public provision and local income tax competition
Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016
We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436089
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Citizen preferences and the architecture of government
Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Breuillé, Marie-Laure - 2018
We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903798