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Grâdšṭayn, Marq - 2003

Because protection of property rights cannot be appropriated by any individual, it is widely recognized as being the state's responsibility. Moreover, recent empirical evidence suggests that protection of property rights leads to higher investment levels and faster growth. The extent of property...

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Economic Growth, Income Distribution, and Poverty in Poland During Transition

Paci, Pierella; Sasin, Martin J.; Verbeek, Peter J. - 2013

The authors attempt to analyze the linkages between macroeconomic policies and economic growth variables, their movement over time, and their impact on poverty in the case of Poland. Poland, a middle-income country, is of particular interest because its data sources allow for a relatively...

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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2017

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

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Public budget composition, fiscal (de)centralization and welfare

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana; … - 2007

composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … conjecture" that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed …

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A Dynamic Model of Fiscal Decentralization and Public Debt Accumulation

Guo, Si; Pei, Yun; Xie, Leiyu - 2022

quantitatively how fiscal decentralization affects local and central government debt accumulation and spending. In the model, the … local and central debts are inefficiently high. Consistent with empirical evidence, when fiscal decentralization widens …

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Sequencing Fiscal Decentralization

Bahl, Roy W.; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge - 2012

While there is extensive knowledge about how to design fiscal decentralization policies, considerably less is … understood about how a decentralization program should be sequenced and implemented. Countries embarking on decentralization … often struggle with decisions about the essential components of decentralization, including the order of an introduction of …

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Decentralization and Accountability : Are Voters More Vigilant in Local than in National Elections?

Khemani, Stuti - 2001

Defining vigilance as retrospective voting - where voters evaluate incumbents on their performance during their entire term in office - the author compares voter behavior in local and national elections to make inferences about whether voters are more vigilant in monitoring government at the...

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A theory for ranking distribution functions

Aaberge, Rolf; Havnes, Tarjei; Mogstad, Magne - 2013

When is one distribution (of income, consumption, or some other economic variable) more equal or better than another? This question has proven difficult to answer in situations where distribution functions intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker criteria...

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An adverse social welfare effect of quadruply gainful trade

Stark, Oded; Kosiorowski, Grzegorz - 2020

Acknowledging that individuals dislike having low relative income renders trade less attractive when seen as a technology that integrates two economies by merging separate social spheres into one. We define a "trembling trade" as a situation in which gains from trade are less than losses in...

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On a tendency in health economics to dwell on income inequality and underestimate social stress

Stark, Oded - 2023

Social stress can cause physical and mental harm. It is therefore not surprising that public health policy makers have sought to identify and implement policies aimed at tackling this social ill. A frequently prescribed remedy is to reduce social stress by reducing income inequality, which is...

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