Bianchi, Nicola; Giorcelli, Michela; Martino, Enrica Maria - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the … identifica- tion leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralization that stems from differences in the average … age of buildings caused by bombings during WWII. Decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services …