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Public Sector Decentralization : Measurement Concepts and Recent International Trends
Stegarescu, Dan - 2008
This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing … on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are …-making competencies in the course of time, new time series of annual data on the degree of fiscal decentralization are provided for 23 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014069150
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Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Disparity : Evidence from Cross-Section and Panel Data
Lessmann, Christian - 2009
The advantages and disadvantages of public sector decentralization are widely discussed in economics and political … science. Some authors argue that decentralization leads to an optimal provision of public services and promotes economic … studies the impact of fiscal decentralization on regional disparities. We find that a higher degree of decentralization is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721515
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Public Sector Decentralization: Measurement Concepts and Recent International Trends
Stegarescu, Dan - 2004
This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing … on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are …-making competencies in the course of time, new time series of annual data on the degree of fiscal decentralization are provided for 23 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297396
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Costs, Preferences, and Institutions: An Empirical Analysis of the Determinants of Government Decentralization
Stegarescu, Dan - 2005
-national differences in the degree of fiscal decentralization. Accounting for taxing powers of subnational governments, the evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297446
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Fiscal decenetralization and regional disparity : evidence from cross-section and panel data
Lessmann, Christian - 2009
The advantages and disadvantages of public sector decentralization are widely discussed in economics and political … science. Some authors argue that decentralization leads to an optimal provision of public services and promotes economic … studies the impact of fiscal decentralization on regional disparities. We find that a higher degree of decentralization is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003851100
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Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries : Is There a Relationship?
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2009
We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 … by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization … evidence for a negative relationship in a number of additional robustness checks. We thus conclude that fiscal decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157658
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Intergovernmental Grants and Public Input Provision : Theory and Evidence from Germany
Hauptmeier, Sebastian - 2008
This paper uses a simple model of fiscal competition between local jurisdictions to analyse the impact of intergovernmental grants on the composition of public spending. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalisation coincides with a smaller overall share...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012726750
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Fiscal equalization and the tax structure
Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929809
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Dezentralisierung in Entwicklungsländern : finanzielle Dezentralisierung und sustainable human development
Metzger, Ulrich - 2001
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001553431
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Fiscal decentralization and pollution : institutions matter
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Mennel, Tim - 2012
We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of … institutions can limit the destructive environmental effects of decentralization. The empirical results confirm a strand of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009534026