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Fiscal decentralization and budgetary discipline: lessons for Spain from other countries’ experience
Sorribas-Navarro, Sorribas-Navarro , Pilar - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2009) 16, pp. 219-246
The aim of this paper is to analyse the effect of fiscal decentralization on subcentral governments’ budgetary … decentralization can discipline the subcentral governments’ budgetary decisions, as it happens, for instance, in the USA, Canada and …
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Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector
Baskaran, T. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
No consensus has yet emerged on whether fiscal decentralization facilitates or impedes the growth of the public sector …. One explanation for this ambiguity in the literature is that the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector size … between fiscal decentralization and the ideology of the government may influence the size of the public sector. Thereafter …
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The Woodlands: A different way of governance
Insa-Ciriza, Raquel - In: INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH (2010) 17, pp. 5-28
The Woodlands (Texas) is one of the best examples of success in a public-private partnership between the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and a private firm. Developed as a New Town by Mitchell Energy & Development Corporation, The Woodlands has flourished and created a...
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Strengths And Weaknesses Of The New Public Management (NPM)- Cross-Sectional And Longitudinal Analysis
Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The paradigm of NPM, like its forerunners, has been trying to answer the same question for almost twenty years: how to implement policies, strategies, programs and projects, using the market-type mechanisms, so that the institutions of the state could achieve the desired results. The praises and...
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Anarchy, Monopoly, and Predation
Leeson, Peter T. - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 163 (2007) 3, pp. 467-482
Although institutions rooted in the folk theorem can support self-enforcing exchange in a wide variety of contexts, their potential to create cooperation is not limitless. In particular, the folk theorem may break down when some agents are physically stronger than others. I demonstrate this in...
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Overlapping Jurisdictions, Proprietary Communities, and Competition in the Realm of Law
Stringham, Edward - In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE) 162 (2006) 3, pp. 516-534
Frey [2001] and others propose subjecting governments to competition within their jurisdiction, but classical liberals argue that having competing law enforcers cannot work. This article describes a hybrid system that relies on markets but has one law enforcement agency per region, with profit...
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Le privatizzazioni come mito riformista
FLORIO, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2007
This paper suggests that efficiency considerations do not explain why privatization policy is so appealing to the centre-left parties in Europe. Divestitures of state owned corporations in the UK and elsewhere were implemented by right wing parties with the over-arching objective to defeat trade...
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Public Private Partnership as a Last Resort for Traditional Public Procurement
Bojović, Viktorija - In: Panoeconomicus 53 (2006) 3, pp. 299-311
This paper discusses recent changes in the way public services are delivered. A marked increase in the cooperation between the public and private sector in the realisation of complex projects, mostly concerning development of infrastructure, is the main characteristic of present-day developing...
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Incumbency effects in government and opposition: Evidence from Germany
Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - In: European Journal of Political Economy 36 (2014) C, pp. 117-134
Do district incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, do these advantages depend on which party is in government? We estimate the incumbency effect for the direct district candidates in German federal and state elections using a regression discontinuity design (RDD). When studying...
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Fiscal Federalism and its Impact on Economic Activity, Public Investment and the Performance of Educational Systems
Blöchliger, Hansjörg; Égert, Balázs; Fredriksen, … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Intergovernmental fiscal frameworks usually reflect fundamental societal choices and history and are not foremost geared towards achieving economic policy objectives. Yet, like most institutional arrangements, fiscal relations affect the behaviour of firms, households and governments and thereby...
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