on the ideal institutional setting of federalism in Switzerland. According to our findings, decentralization actually … the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation, since the inequality decreasing effect of fiscal … decentralization is counteracted by the interaction with jurisdictional fragmentation. Interestingly, it is not redistribution via …

This paper examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on both public investment in innovation (measured as the … model predicts that decentralization leads to a lower level of public spending on innovation, and to a lower share of basic … find evidence that expenditure decentralization leads to lower intensity of basic research within public R&D, and that both …

This paper examines the impact of fiscal decentralization on both public investment in innovation (measured as the … model predicts that decentralization leads to a lower level of public spending on innovation, and to a lower share of basic … find evidence that expenditure decentralization leads to lower intensity of basic research within public R&D, and that both …

In this paper we investigate the effects of fiscal decentralization on income inequality using a sample of 23 OECD … countries over the period 1971-2000. We utilize novel and robust measures of fiscal decentralization based on different degrees … fiscal decentralization - expenditure versus taxation - and the extent to which responsibility and decision powers are …

on fiscal decentralization suggesting that redistribution is most effectively carried out at sub-central levels of … that the decentralization of government expenditure can help achieve a more equal distribution of income. However, several … conditions need to be fulfilled: i) the government sector needs to be sufficiently large, ii) decentralization should be …

decentralization in OECD countries. Based on a theoretical framework, the empirical panel analysis relates the degree of public sector … decentralization to economic and European integration, controlling for inter-regional heterogeneity, economies of scale, and …