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Fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected unitary European countries
Szarowská, Irena - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 9 (2014) 1, pp. 22-40
The article provides direct empirical evidence on fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected European countries in a period 1995-2012. The research (based on data taken from OECD Fiscal Decentralisation Database and OECD) is performed on a panel, which contains 17 unitary...
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Fiscal decentralization, economic growth and human resource development in Nigeria : Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach
Udoh, Elijah; Afangideh, Udoma J.; Udeaja, Elias A. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 6 (2015) 1, pp. 69-93
There is a widespread belief that fiscal decentralization is an effective tool for increasing the efficiency of public … expenditures. Decentralization is expected to boost accountability and transparency in the provision of public goods for the well … for the period 1980 to 2012, the study found that expenditure decentralization exerted negative effect on human resource …
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Migration and tax yields in a devolved economy
Foreman-Peck, James S.; Zhou, Peng - 2016
Households may migrate between jurisdictions to secure preferred mixes of collectively sup-plied services and taxation. But devolution of taxes to sub-national jurisdictions could reduce expected tax revenue if some move to lower tax regimes, constraining devolved government policy. This paper...
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Fiscal federalism, decentralization and economic growth : survey and meta-analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Feld, Lars P.; Schnellenbach, Jan - 2014
decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … innovate and carry out reforms. On the contrary, some authors argue that decentralization increases corruption and government …
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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth : Survey and Meta-Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2014
decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … innovate and carry out reforms. On the contrary, some authors argue that decentralization increases corruption and government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045930
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The Natural Resource Curse and Fiscal Decentralization
Perez‐Sebastian, Fidel - 2015
countries in the degree of fiscal decentralization can contribute to this divergent outcome. Using a large panel of countries …, covering several decades and various fiscal decentralization and natural resource measures, we provide empirical support for …
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A comparative approach to fiscal illusions : a synthesis of the conclusions from a Polish study in relation to new ideas and empirical research in selected countries
Guziejewska, Beata - In: Comparative economic research : Central and Eastern Europe 24 (2021) 2, pp. 7-21
This article examines fiscal illusions inpublic finance systems where decentralisation involving the introduction of an independent and autonomous component oflocal government funding brings new problems. It presents a synthesis ofthe findings from a Polish empirical study that set out to...
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Local government financing during the electoral business cycle : analysing the role of intergovernmental political alignment on municipality budgets in Greece
Kitsos, Anastasios; Proestakis, Antonios - 2018
This paper examines the role of political alignment and the electoral business cycle on municipality revenues in Greece for the period 2003-2010. A panel dataset combining local and national elections with local budgets is used to run a fixed-effects econometric model. The findings suggest that...
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Identifying and disentangling the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic growth
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge; … - 2019
This paper revisits the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity … argue are strong and consistent instruments for fiscal decentralization. Empirically, we find that indeed both instruments … expenditure or revenue shares - the conventional measures of decentralization - will increase GDP per capita growth by …
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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Economic Development
Pasichnyi, Mykola - 2019
In this article, updated approach to assess the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic development is offered …. The relationship between the proper level of fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 27 advanced and emerging … expenditures decentralization was more essential than revenue decentralization. The vast majority of the counties from Central and …
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