decentralization is associated with improved fiscal performance and better functioning of internal common markets. Fiscal policy … discipline. Fiscal decentralization poses significant challenges for macroeconomic management. These challenges require careful …

important to achieve in development objectives is changing as fiscal decentralization reforms are being pursued by many … countries around the world. In this context, a number of studies have attempted to quantify the impact of decentralization by … decentralization is surprisingly difficult to measure. Nearly all cases examining the relationship between decentralization and …

Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of … governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization …/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that …

empirical evidence about actual country practices. This paper presents data on fiscal decentralization for about 80 countries … for transition economies, the levels of decentralization are relatively stable over the time period. The findings are … factors identified in the literature as determining the extent of fiscal decentralization …

-country evidence, based on a sample of developing and developed countries, that fiscal decentralization—the assignment of expenditure …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of … control variables and method of estimation. -- Terrorism ; decentralization ; federalism ; governance quality ; government …