well as the relationship between public expenditure and decentralization, for Italian regions in the 1997-2009 period … expenditure on GDP) and the economic growth rate. The main results are twofold. First, when the degree of decentralization is … reasonably low (below the 31% of expenditure decentralization), a BARS curve has been successfully discovered, and the optimal …

The advantages and disadvantages of public sector decentralization are widely discussed in economics and political … science. Some authors argue that decentralization leads to an optimal provision of public services and promotes economic … studies the impact of fiscal decentralization on regional disparities. We find that a higher degree of decentralization is …

combined as the interaction effect “size decentralization,” in 100 randomly selected countries. Two theoretical arguments may …

delegation and voluntary in-kind transfers, the tradeoff is exactly the opposite: Decentralization achieves the social optimum … strategically displace. Contrary to the supposition in Oates's decentralization theorem, increasing interdependence makes …