federalism by employing 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 differences in (1 … institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables to different degrees. This …

. Building on insights provided by the “second generation” wave of research on fiscal federalism, this paper proposes a unified …

decentralization, federalism, and aggregate decentralization. Our results show that fiscal and administrative decentralization are …

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a … resource-poor region has a higher marginal product of labor than does the resource-rich region, the tax reform mitigates the …

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically …

standards are derived. -- Fiscal federalism ; minimum standards ; tax autonomy ; fiscal equalization …