simple model of the interaction between the federal and state governments in such a scheme of partial decentralization. Our …

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 developed countries today and the United States and Europe historically …

response. In this paper, we explore the effect that competition for residents induced by fiscal decentralization has on 'waste … an additional advantage of fiscal decentralization …

partial decentralization. A capital poor median voter wants to use capital taxes to provide public goods. This results in …. Decentralization provides such a commitment: local governments avoid using capital taxes due to the pressure of tax competition. We … therefore obtain that the median voter favors a partial degree of decentralization. The equilibrium degree of decentralization …

institution fostered the entrenchment of Islamism at a critical juncture in Indonesia, the world's largest Muslim country. In the …