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Government decentralization as a commitment
Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 2014
. Building on insights provided by the “second generation” wave of research on fiscal federalism, this paper proposes a unified …
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Government decentralization and international government performance
Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Nelson, Michael A.; … - 2016
decentralization, federalism, and aggregate decentralization. Our results show that fiscal and administrative decentralization are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011515296
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Moral federalism : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Public Sector Economics, May 2004
Janeba, Eckhard - 2004
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 …
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The economic approach to political borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment
Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009
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 …
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Aid, growth and devolution
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2009
This paper examines whether the federal structure of aid-receiving countries matters in explaining aid effectiveness. Following the decentralization theorem, the devolution of powers should increase aid effectiveness, since local decision-makers are better informed about local needs. At the same...
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Revisiting the "decentralization theorem" : on the role of externalities
Köthenbürger, Marko (contributor) - 2007
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Federalism, fertility and growth
Borck, Rainald (contributor) - 2007
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Decentralization and foreign aid effectiveness : do aid modality and federal design matter in poverty alleviation?
Lessmann, Christian; Markwardt, Gunther - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003966487
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Elections and de facto expenditure decentralization in Canada
Jametti, Mario; Joanis, Marcelin - 2014
This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two levels of government are involved in the provision of a...
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