paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …

Fiscal federalism concerns the division of policy responsibilities among different levels of government. Many current … favorable to fiscal federalism, yet countries are further decentralizing their fiscal systems. We summarize the efficiency and … equity aspects fiscal decentralization, fiscal competition, fiscal externalities, and intergovernmental grants. The survey …

economics and public finance may have to say on the limits to institutional decentralization, i.e. on the choice between federal …

. Building on insights provided by the “second generation” wave of research on fiscal federalism, this paper proposes a unified … model to account for this. The idea is that decentralization serves as a commitment device to ensure that ex post chose … the decentralization process in China in 1980-1990s, as well as the fact that government decentralization is generally …

decentralization, federalism, and aggregate decentralization. Our results show that fiscal and administrative decentralization are …Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … study the relative influences of different types of decentralization, including fiscal decentralization, administrative …

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