explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes - "decentralization" and "centralization" - when "knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision-making controls the degree of decentralization …

I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of …

example of a "delegation-scheme." Conversely, project aid represents a more "centralized" type of aid. According to the theory …

In this paper, we present theory and global evidence on how mobile internet access affects desire and plans to emigrate …. Our theory predicts that mobile internet access increases desire and plans to emigrate. Our empirical analysis combines …-middle-income countries. In line with our theory, an important mechanism appears to be that access to the mobile internet lowers the cost of …

tax decentralization reforms, which granted regions and municipalities greater power in setting income tax rates across … locations, we show that taxation significantly shapes location decisions. The mobility response greatly varies across the income …-induced mobility are small, making local redistribution feasible at least over the medium-run. …

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

drivers of human mobility. We code 45 papers representative of the literature in terms of methodological approaches. This … dimensions include authors' reputation, type of mobility, measures of mobility, type of data, context of the study, econometric … choices, such as the frequency of the data on mobility, the level of development, the measures of human mobility and of the …