This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of "fiscal federalism", providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors...

This paper reviews the fiscal relations between the three levels of government in Austria and points to the scope for reforming them with a view to improving the efficiency of the public sector. Key areas of public sector activity are subject to complex relations across the three layers of...

Contents: Foreword by Richard Bird -- 1 Introduction to the volume / Serdar Yilmaz and Farah Zahir -- Part I: Conceptual issues -- 2. The architecture of intergovernmental transfers: principles and practice in low- and middle-income countries / Roy W. Bahl Jr -- 3. Issues in intergovernmental...