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 …

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 …

Most of the empirical analysis explores the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth within a … constitutional void. This paper investigates the connection between fiscal decentralization and income growth across different … institutional settings in 20 OECD countries over the period 1973-2007. We find that the pro-growth effects of tax decentralization …

This paper reviews the current knowledge on an issue of increasing policy interest: what impact fiscal decentralization … has on economic growth. Fiscal decentralization may indeed have a direct impact on economic growth but the theoretical … decentralization and economic growth is that it remains an open question. Much less attention has been devoted in the literature to the …

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 …

Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To … analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels … decentralization is desirable only if the benefits of vertical complementarity in public good provision outweigh the costs of reduced …