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centralization. The recent years have witnessed strong movements for both decentralization and secession. At the same time, a divided … economic and monetary union of some European countries. It is therefore natural that decentralization has been at the center of … particularly interesting because it explains the wave of decentralization that has followed the end of the Cold War. The model also …
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This paper presents a simple positive model that unifies most of the results of the normative literature on fiscal federalism. The model describes an economy characterized by two levels of government, one public good, and a private good. The predictions of the model are tested by using a new set...
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Governments issue debt for good and bad reasons. While the good reasons-intertemporal tax-smoothing, fiscal stimulus, and asset management-can explain some of the increases in public debt in recent years, they cannot account for all of the observed changes. Bad reasons for borrowing are driven...
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Governments issue debt for good and bad reasons. While the good reasons-intertemporal tax-smoothing, fiscal stimulus, and asset management-can explain some of the increases in public debt in recent years, they cannot account for all of the observed changes. Bad reasons for borrowing are driven...
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This paper introduces a novel index to measure public investment quality, utilizing the World Bank's investment project performance data from 120 countries over the period 2000-2021. After detailing the construction of the index, the paper examines how public investment quality influences the...
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