) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …

This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel … data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels …. Results for 185 countries show that while tax decentralization often hampers the degree of fiscal responsiveness, potentially …

The literature on socio economic implications of fiscal decentralization (FD) has recently been expanding, though only … budget deficits. Using various measures of both expenditure and revenue decentralization in a large panel data set, we show …

stability and sustainability at both the central and local government levels. Based upon the evidence on the decentralization …

Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations reform have become nearly ubiquitous in developing …

evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect average municipal finances and fiscal decentralization. …

decentralization systems by examining the sequencing and economic principles underlying revenue and expenditure assignments, the use of …

economic growth under fiscal decentralization policy in the context of China’s experience, using panel data for 28 provinces … that fiscal decentralization could improve regional growth in China. Finally, this paper finds that the use of extra …