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Frameworks for central-local government relations and fiscal sustainability
Morgan, Peter J.; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016
stability and sustainability at both the central and local government levels. Based upon the evidence on the decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011561683
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Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Non-Oil Economic Growth in a Resource-Rich Economy
Fakhri, Hasanov - 2020
The paper investigates effects of fiscal decentralization on non-oil sector development in case of Azerbaijan for the … share of local expenditures and revenues in total, measures of fiscal decentralization, have negative impact on non-oil GDP … implementing economic reforms to develop institutional aspects of decentralization and thus make it supportive for non-oil economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829187
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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Economic Development
Pasichnyi, Mykola - 2019
In this article, updated approach to assess the impact of fiscal decentralization on economic development is offered …. The relationship between the proper level of fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 27 advanced and emerging … expenditures decentralization was more essential than revenue decentralization. The vast majority of the counties from Central and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865398
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Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle : evidence from Israel
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian; Brender, Adi; … - 2015
This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300741
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Revenue decentralization, central oversight and the political budget cycle : evidence from Israel
Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Blesse, Sebastian; Brender, Adi; … - 2015
This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281657
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Coalition Formation and Political Decision Making : Evidence from Finnish Municipal Mergers
Saarimaa, Tuukka; Tukiainen, Janne - 2011
This paper analyzes empirically the coalition formation of local governments. We introduce a novel econometric strategy involving choice based sampling from a spatial network to allow for multi-partner mergers in our empirical analysis. We apply our method to recent municipality mergers in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014177719
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Treated Politicians, Treated Voters : A Natural Experiment of Political Budget Cycles
Fukumoto, Kentaro; Horiuchi, Yusaku; Tanaka, Shoichiro - 2022
Although pre-electoral political manipulation of the budget --- the political budget cycle (PBC) --- has been long investigated by scholars, empirical findings are mixed at best. This is partly because of the non-random nature of election timing. There also exist ongoing debates over how the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014179284
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Testing Political Agency Models
Pettersson-Lidbom, Per - 2007
This paper tests for political agency effects, that is, whether governments that were ex post re-elected performed better than those who were replaced, and whether re-elected governments performed better than newly elected ones. As a testing ground, I use Swedish local governments which offer a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014050374
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Fiscal Federalism and Grant-in-Aid Design for the Provision of Impure Public Goods
Levaggi, Laura; Levaggi, Rosella - 2011
superior alternative to decentralization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014217701
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Local Fiscal Constraints and Amplification of Regional Shocks
Giesecke, Oliver - 2022
How do municipal finances interact with local labor market shocks? I show that the observed general equilibrium response to local labor market shocks contains an economically important amplification effect through local financial constraints. At the center of the local financial amplification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076613