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Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision: Evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in … Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence … of heterogeneity in access to public goods across communities in the period prior to fiscal decentralisation; with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443370
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public good provision: evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - In: Journal of comparative economics : the journal of the … 45 (2017) 2, pp. 383-409
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011907894
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision : evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
. -- decentralisation ; democratisation ; mutual co-operation ; social and physical infrastructure ; local public spending ; Indonesia …Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in … Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009680586
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Fiscal decentralisation, local institutions and public goods provision : evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of scal decentralisation in Indonesia … ; Democratisation ; Mutual co-operation ; Social and physical infrastructure ; Local public spending; Indonesia … heterogeneity in access to public goods across communities in the period prior to scal decentralisation; with signifi cantly greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686877
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Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision : Evidence from Indonesia
Pal, Sarmistha - 2012
Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in … Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence … of heterogeneity in access to public goods across communities in the period prior to fiscal decentralisation; with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096145
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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits
Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024
Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463692
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Do institutions Matter for economic performance? : theoretical insights and evidence from Turkey
Çetin, Tamer; Çicen, Yildirim B.; Eryigit, Kadir Y. - 2016
This paper studies whether institutions matter for economic performance. For this aim, we first construct a simple framework illustrating how to examine the interaction between institutions and economic performance from a different point of view. Then, using this framework, we introduce an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011558534
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An Introduction to the Theories of Institutional Change
Coccia, Mario - 2019
Institutional change explains the change of institutions considered as rules and expectations that govern human interactions and paths of development in society. This conceptual paper describes, with an historical perspective, the most important definitions of institution and of institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894942
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Corruption
Banerjee, Abhijit V.; Mullainathan, Sendhil; Hanna, Rema - 2012
In this paper, we provide a new framework for analyzing corruption in public bureaucracies. The standard way to model corruption is as an example of moral hazard, which then leads to a focus on better monitoring and stricter penalties with the eradication of corruption as the final goal. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009540755
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A theory of conservative revivals
Iyigun, Murat; Rubin, Jared; Seror, Avner - 2018
Why do some societies fail to adopt more efficient political and economic institutions in response to changing economic conditions? And why do such conditions sometimes generate conservative ideological backlashes and, at other times, progressive social and political movements? We propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011949432