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provides no clear evidence for a causal relationship between economic and European integration and fiscal decentralization in …
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This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal … countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues …
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Sub-national governments often finance substantial parts of their budgets via taxes on capital or other mobile factors - despite having access to alternative, less distortionary, revenue sources. This paper develops three hypotheses to explain this pattern and tests them in a natural experiment...
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decentralization and centralization. In particular, the paper weighs the benefits of centralization against the benefits of … decentralized policy experimentation. Meanwhile, the exact amount of (de)centralization proves elusive. In consequence, the national … level may provide the best option to pragmatically balancing the benefits of both centralization and decentralization. …
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Intergovernmental transfers can be either conditional or unconditional with regard to the autonomy of local governments in spending such financial means. Although fiscal decentralisation has recently been quite pronounced in Eastern European transition countries, the dominance of a purpose- and...
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