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Government Decentralization Under Changing State Capacity : Experimental Evidence from Paraguay

Dal Bo, Ernesto - 2018

Standard models of hierarchy assume that agents and middle managers are better informed than principals about how to implement a particular task. We estimate the value of the informational advantage held by supervisors – middle managers – when ministerial leadership – the principal –...

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Inefficiencies from Metropolitan Political and Fiscal Decentralization : Failures of Tiebout Competition

Calabrese, Stephen - 2011

We examine the welfare effects of provision of local public goods in an empirically relevant setting using a multi-community model with mobile and heterogeneous households, and with flexible housing supplies. We characterize the first-best allocation and show efficiency can be implemented with...

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The Organization of R&D in American Corporations : The Determinants and Consequences of Decentralization

Arora, Ashish - 2011

We study the relationship between decentralization of R&D, innovation and firm performance using a novel dataset on the organizational structure of 1,290 American publicly-listed corporations, 2,615 of their affiliate firms, as well as characteristics of 594,903 patents that they hold. We...

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Does Decentralization Facilitate Access to Poverty-Related Services? Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie - 2012

We study the effect of decentralization on the access to some poverty-related public services in Benin. Compiling panel data from local governments' accounts and from surveys on 18,000 Beninese households performed in 2006 and 2007, our study suggests that decentralization has a positive overall...

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Isolated Capital Cities and Misgovernance : Theory and Evidence

Campante, Filipe R. - 2013

Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we … ways: broader power sharing (associated with better governance) means that any rents have to be shared more broadly, hence … capital city allows the elite to appropriate a larger share of output, so the costs of better governance for the elite, in …

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Decentralisation in Africa and the Nature of Local Governments' Competition : Evidence from Benin

Caldeira, Emilie - 2014

Decentralization has been put forward as a powerful tool to reduce poverty and improve governance in Africa. The aim of … among local governments, and more broadly, it questions the effeciency of decentralisation in developing countries in line …

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Experimentation in Federal Systems

Callander, Steven - 2013

We present a model where heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. Since districts learn from each other, the first-best requires that policy experiments converge so that innovations are useful also for neighbors. However, the equilibrium...

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Decentralization in Developing Economies

Gadenne, Lucie - 2013

Standard models of fiscal federalism suggest many benefits of decentralization in developing economies, and there has been a recent push toward decentralization around the world. However, developing countries presently still have less decentralization, particularly on the revenue side, than both...

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Decentralized Trading with Private Information

Golosov, Mikhail - 2009

The paper studies asset pricing in informationally decentralized markets. These markets have two key frictions: trading is decentralized (bilateral), and some agents have private information. We analyze how uninformed agents acquire information over time from their bilateral trades. In...

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Decentralization and Efficiency of Subsidy Targeting : Evidence from Chiefs in Rural Malawi

Basurto, Pia - 2017

Developing countries spend vast sums on subsidies. Beneficiaries are typically selected via either a proxy-means test (PMT) or through a decentralized identification process led by local leaders. A decentralized allocation may offer informational or accountability advantages, but may be prone to...

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