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Collective Lobbying in Politics: Theory and Empirical Evidence from Sweden

Liang, Che-Yuan - 2008

This paper first formulates a model of how the politicians in a local government collectively lobby to raise intergovernmental grants to their local government. The model identifies a relationship between council size and grants received. I then study this relationship empirically using the...

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Enhancing administrative and fiscal decentralisation in the Czech Republic

Sila, Urban; De la Maisonneuve, Christine - 2020

There is considerable regional variation in incomes and poverty in the Czech Republic and gaps have grown over time. With the highest number of municipalities per head in the OECD, subnational government is very fragmented and the resulting lack of capacity at the local level reduces the quality...

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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana

Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021

investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … study. The results with regard to our two indicators of fiscal decentralization indicate that fiscal autonomy proxied by …

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Decentralization and Local Government Performance : Improving Public Services Provision in Bolivia

Faguet, Jean-Paul - 2006

This paper reviews some of the more important rationales for decentralization to date, examines their theoretical … underpinning, and the goes on to describe the elements of a nwe theory of decentralization which might take us far in our … effects of decentralization in Bolivia. We find strong evidence that devolving resources and power to local government has (i …

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Citizen Support for Increasing the Responsibilities of Local Government in European Countries : A Comparative Analysis

Van de Walle, Steven; Baker, Keith; Skelcher, Chris - 2014

The transfer of responsibilities from central to local government has often been justified on the grounds of efficiency and democracy under the principle of subsidiarity. The existing models for mapping local government power in Europe, however, are often insufficiently detailed to allow...

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Local Governments' Response to Fiscal Shocks : Evidence from Connecticut

Giesecke, Oliver; Mateen, Haaris - 2022

The deteriorating fiscal position of municipalities across the United States raises the question which adjustment mechanisms municipalities have at their disposal and what their effects are. We utilize quasi-experimental variation in the year of property tax assessments in the state of...

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Do Mentoring and Oversight Matter? The Effects of Allocating Central Administrators to Local Government Units : Evidence from Japan

Nakazawa, Nobuhiko - 2019

During the 2000s, Japanese central administrators were actively transferred from the central government to mentor and monitor local governments in the hopes of mitigating deficit bias. Using a generalized difference-in-differences model and rich administrative data, I find that municipalities...

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Local Government Debt Valuation

Giesecke, Oliver; Mateen, Haaris; Jardim Sena, Marcelo - 2022

We construct a novel data set on the fiscal position of municipalities in the United States and document a secular decline in their financial health. Our data combines financial data from the Annual Comprehensive Financial Reports (ACFRs) of municipalities along with Census data of their revenue...

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Local Government Fiscal Policies : Left-Wing vs. Right-Wing Portuguese Municipalities

Migueis, Marco - 2012

In this paper, I investigate whether the ideology of the local government incumbent influences local fiscal policies by using financial data from Portuguese municipalities, from 2003 to 2007. Regression discontinuity design is employed to ensure proper identification of the ideology effect on...

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Fiscal transfers, local government, and entrepreneurship

Danisewicz, Piotr; Ongena, Steven - 2020 - This draft: December 24, 2020

Can local government spending spur entrepreneurial activity? To answer this question we study a setting where, around multiple pre-determined and non-manipulable thresholds, municipalities with lower tax revenues receive direct and different monetary grants from the national budget. Employing a...

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