present time has to be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of fiscal federalism are crucial for … federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of whether it is being carried out in a federal or non …

minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …

We empirically analyze the determinants of the fiscal decentralization in the European Union. Our approach consists on … on the fiscal decentralization by quantiles. Specifically, while GDP per capita or corruption are not significant in a … decentralization. And other variables as population, density or inequality do not have neither the same impact among quantiles …

rivalry in consumption of the publicly provided good. We identify three sources of welfare loss from decentralization … characteristics of the publicly provided good are an important determinant for the welfare costs of decentralization. …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

are co-partisans with presidents, while senators support decentralization regardless of such party ties. When House … with decentralization …

explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization’ and ‘centralization’ — when ‘knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision making controls the degree of decentralization …