This paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization and inter-jurisdictional competition on foreign aid … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that expenditure decentralization and inter-jurisdictional competition – reflected by … the degree of tax revenue decentralization – negatively impact aid effectiveness. We therefore conclude that donor …

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 …

The fiscal decentralization impulse now sweeping the world often leads to partial decentralization, where subnational … arrangement, the literature contains no economic analysis of a partial decentralization regime in a Tiebout-style model. This …

endogenous policy decentralization using liquor control in the United States over the period 1934 to 1970 as our case study. The …

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 paper empirically studies the impact of decentralization and inter-jurisdictional competition on foreign aid … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that expenditure decentralization and inter-jurisdictional competition – reflected by … the degree of tax revenue decentralization – negatively impact aid effectiveness. We therefore conclude that donor …