paper compares three regimes (centralization, decentralization and federalism) in an economy where individuals choose their … move from decentralization to federalism, called moral federalism, is welfare improving behind the veil of ignorance if and … only if centralization dominates decentralization, and (ii) for the group that favors a restrictive policy moral federalism …

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

We study the effect of ethnic diversity on local public spending following fiscal decentralisation in a setting where …. Overall, we find that ethnic diversity depresses local development spending post-decentralisation at the community level …

The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … the population size of the nation: Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in … the number of regions: The complementary question what happens to the gains of federalism when increasing the number of …