Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of government using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first provide … careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel regressions of …

This paper revisits the fiscal "decentralization theorem", by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are …) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous ; (ii …) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are homogenous. The intuition …

spending and taxation decisions are made by nonbenevolent politicians. As in the recent so-called Second Generation Theory (SGT … particular, the convenience of having decentralization versus centralization changes with the degree of spillovers and the size …. On the contrary, bigger local jurisdictions would like decentralization.When beneficial spillover effects increase (and …

Advocates of fiscal decentralization argue that amongst other benefits, it can increase the efficiency of delivery of … education expenditure decentralization and the productive efficiency of schools using a data-set of Swiss cantons. We first … provide careful evidence that expenditure decentralization is a powerful proxy for legal local autonomy. Further panel …

coming from symmetric districts, our centralization dominates decentralization for any degree of spillovers. In other cases …

system a single representative is elected by a federal vote. It is shown that under decentralization, voters strategically … choice is biased towards decentralization. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2000 …

This paper revisits the fiscal "decentralization theorem", by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are …) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous; (ii …) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are homogenous. The intuition …

This paper revisits the fiscal "decentralization theorem", by relaxing the role of the assumption that governments are …) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are heterogenous; (ii …) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are homogenous. The intuition …