minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …

rivalry in consumption of the publicly provided good. We identify three sources of welfare loss from decentralization … characteristics of the publicly provided good are an important determinant for the welfare costs of decentralization. …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

are co-partisans with presidents, while senators support decentralization regardless of such party ties. When House … with decentralization …

explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization’ and ‘centralization’ — when ‘knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision making controls the degree of decentralization …

This article develops a conceptual, methodological, and theoretical framework for analyzing dynamic decentralization in … decentralization and describes the seven-point coding scheme we employed to measure it across twenty-two policy areas and five fiscal … decentralization and discusses its five main properties: direction, magnitude, tempo, form, and instruments. Drawing from several …

centralization that will be adopted, and that asymmetric forms of federalism are often consequences of ongoing negotiations between … convention. In each case, an asymmetric form of federalism is the predicted outcome, although the degree of asymmetry differs …

The economic theory of federalism is largely built around the premise that more heterogeneous preferences result in … more decentralized policy-making. Despite its prominence and importance, this central tenet of economic federalism has … endogenous policy decentralization using liquor control in the United States over the period 1934 to 1970 as our case study. The …