decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of …In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …

decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of …In a career-concern model of politics with endogenous candidacy and different types of politicians, following a … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the ’90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …

This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the … predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two … decentralization is endogenous and depends on the relative political conditions prevailing at each level of government. Consistent with …

Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of … governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization …/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that …

In his seminal work on fiscal federalism, Oates (1972) addressed the so-called Decentralization Theorem, which states …