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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 …
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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 …
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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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Decentralized tax revenue, institutional complementarity and economic growth : a time series analysis of Pakistan
Hassan, Muhammad Shahid; Kalim, Rukhsana - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 10 (2020) 4, pp. 25-33
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Public provision and local income tax competition
Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016
We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...
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Taxation, social protection, and governance decentralization
Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2016
. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …
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Experimentation in federal systems
Callander, Steven; Harstad, Bård - 2015
We develop a model of policy experimentation in federal systems in which heterogeneous districts choose both whether to experiment and the policies to experiment with. The prospect of informational spillovers implies that in the fi rst best the districts converge in their policy choice....
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A decentralization theorem of taxation
Lipatov, Vilen; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2015
"decentralization theorem of taxation" that is analogous to Oates (1972) famous result that in the absence of spill-over effects and …
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