decentralization in 2001 using a two-stage approach. First, extensive input and output data are utilized to measure government … decentralization and the first-stage productivity scores is analyzed using a Tobit model. This study provides extensive and … decentralization is found to promote government expenditure efficiency. Tax revenue collected by regional governments will support …

Wirtschaftswachstum und seinen Komponenten -auf der einen Seite- und fiskalischer Dezentralisierung -auf der anderen Seite- zu bestehen …Following a brief review of the theoretical literature on the benefits and shortcomings of fiscal decentralization this … determinants, on the one hand, and constructed indicators of fiscal decentralization, on the other hand. The analysis suggests for …

composition. Only when the differences are sufficiently large does full decentralization become the optimal regime. National … conjecture" that fiscal decentralization increases capital accumulation. However, in terms of welfare this result can be reversed …