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Citizen preferences and the architecture of government
Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Breuillé, Marie-Laure - 2018
We consider a country whose government provides a bundle of goods and services through a multi-tier administrative organization. We compare the optimal architectures of public governance (i.e. the division of the state into several tiers, the distribution of services among them, their number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011903798
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Electoral Competition as a Determinant of Fiscal Decentralization
Jametti, Mario - 2011
Fiscal decentralization is high on the agenda in policy fora. This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes … of fiscal decentralization, based on the predictions of a simple political economy model. We argue that the likeliness … support the relevance of political factors as determinants of fiscal decentralization. The relationship between central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120275
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Foot Voting, Decentralization, and Development
Somin, Ilya - 2019
We can enhance development by making it easier for people to “vote with their feet” between jurisdictions. Few, if any, policy reforms can achieve such enormous increases in economic growth and opportunity. Foot voting is, in several crucial respects, a better mechanism of political...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012899463
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Fiscal Federalism, Decentralization and Economic Growth : Survey and Meta-Analysis
Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2014
decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … innovate and carry out reforms. On the contrary, some authors argue that decentralization increases corruption and government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045930
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Redistributing income under fiscal vertical imbalance
Bouton, Laurent (contributor); Gassner, Marjorie (contributor) - 2005 - September 2005, revised January 2007
From the literature on decentralization, it appears that the fiscal vertical imbalance is somehow inherent to multi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010259921
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Conditional grants to independent regional governments : the trade-off between incentives and wasteful grant-seeking
Bischoff, Ivo; Blaeschke, Frédéric - 2010 - This version: May 18, 2010
The paper addresses the welfare implications of conditional grants in the presence of inefficiencies in regional production. While conditional grants may set incentives for regions to reduce inefficiencies, resources are wasted in the process of grant-seeking. We provide a theoretical model to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008748328
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Harnessing the Forces of Urban Expansion - The Public Economics of Farmland Development Allowance
Chau, Nancy H. - 2014
featuring fiscal decentralization, local governments as custodians of land use and development, along with a land development …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013068713
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Unfunded Mandates and Fiscal Structure : Empirical Evidence from a Synthetic Control Model
Ross, Justin M. - 2016
An unfunded expenditure mandate occurs when a local government must provide a good or service by dictate of a higher level of government that does not supply an accompanying revenue source to fully finance the expenditure. This paper is the first to provide empirical evidence on the influence of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012979186
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On the Endogenous Allocation of Decision Powers in Federal Structures
Lorz, Oliver - 2012
This paper provides a political-economy explanation of the degree of centralization in economic policy making. To determine which policies are to be centralized, regions select representatives who then negotiate the degree of centralization and the regional cost shares of centrally decided...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755787
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Central Control of Regional Budget : Theory with Applications to Russia
Litwack, John - 2001
Motivated by the recent experience in the Russian Federation, this paper examines the implications of imposing central control on the budgetary activities of a subnational government. In a highly stylised multi-task principal-agent model (Holmstrom and Milgrom (1991)), a central government...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446063