election mechanism with these contracts is a new idea to make politicians more accountable. Two types of incentive contracts … Verträge sollen die durch die Wahl ausgeübte Kontrolle der Politiker unterstützen.Es werden zwei Arten von Anreizverträgen …

series of arguments that decentralization of governments enhances growth by improving allocation efficiency. However, the … there might be a threshold level of economic development below which decentralization is not effective. Developing and … transition countries have developed a variety of forms of fiscal decentralization as a possible strategy to achieve effective and …

series of arguments that decentralization of governments enhances growth by improving allocation efficiency. However, the … there might be a threshold level of economic development below which decentralization is not effective. Developing and … transition countries have developed a variety of forms of fiscal decentralization as a possible strategy to achieve effective and …

?rderung wirtschaftlichen Wachstums auch das Instrument der Dezentralisierung, das oft als Mittel zur ?Beruhigung? separatistischer Bestrebungen …-enhancing policies, but also on the instrument of decentralization, which is often presented as a tool suited to appease separatist …

the maintenance of a fixed exchange rate regime. Another political factor is electoral: as an election approaches, the … of a country’s currency peg. An impending election increases the conditional likelihood of staying on a peg by about 8 … percent, while the aftershock of an election conversely increases the conditional probability of going off a peg by 4 percent. …

This article analizes the 26 October 1997 Argentinian elections (partial renewal of the lower chamber) from a … historical-comparative perspective. The article also examines the consequences of the elections results on the development of the …