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Did new public management matter? : an empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size
Alonso, José M.; Clifton, Judith; Díaz Fuentes, Daniel - In: Public management review 17 (2015) 5, pp. 643-660
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The economic approach to political borders
Spolaore, Enrico - 2022
This paper overviews theoretical and empirical contributions that study political borders from an economic perspective. It reviews theories of the number and size of nations focused on the trade-off between economies of scale in public-good provision and heterogeneity of preferences over public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013473678
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Foot Voting, Decentralization, and Development
Somin, Ilya - 2019
We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899463
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010841057
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Evolution of fiscal decentralisation in OECD countries : a club convergence analysis
Delgado, Francisco J.; Presno, María José - In: Amfiteatru economic : an economic and business research … 25 (2023) 63, pp. 558-574
We study the fiscal decentralisation patterns in OECD countries through a club convergence approach. Our analysis covers 30 countries spanning 1995 to 2018 and considers the noncentral expenditure and revenue sides with two perspectives, as percentage of GDP and as percentage of the total...
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Networked governance and awards for local government in Indonesia
Okamoto, Masaaki; Kagoya, Kazuhiro - 2024
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How close is your government to its people? : worldwide indicators on localization and decentralization
Ivanyna, Maksym; Shah, Anwar - 2013
This paper is intended to provide an assessment of the impact of the silent revolution (decentralization reforms) of … dimensions of decentralization and localization. These sub-indexes are aggregated and adjusted for heterogeneity to develop an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009774900
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Federalism and innovation support for small and medium-sized enterprises : empirical evidence in Europe
Becker, Lasse; Bizer, Kilian - 2015
Private innovative activities receive public innovation support from different political levels. Few studies have empirically evaluated the influence of political systems on the reception of public innovation support and no other studies have evaluated innovation support across Europe with CIS...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519879
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Improving service delivery through decentralization : a challenge for Asia
Brosio, Giorgio - 2014
This paper assesses how decentralization can contribute, if proper political and fiscal institutions are present, to … improving service delivery in Asia. In other words, decentralization is an opportunity and a challenge at the same time. The … issues leading to "partial decentralization" that is common to most models. Consideration is also given to the emerging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010336939
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Public provision and local income tax competition
Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016
We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436089