The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues … data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

In this paper we offer a comprehensive and updated review of the impact of fiscal decentralization on the economy … decentralization: its proper measurement and the potential endogeneity of fiscal decentralization with many of the variables of … decentralization on a relevant list of socio-economic variables. The impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on political …

This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing … on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are …-making competencies in the course of time, new time series of annual data on the degree of fiscal decentralization are provided for 23 …

The literature on the economics of fiscal decentralization stresses the potential for both positive and negative … empirical evidence by testing for a relationship between fiscal decentralization and changes in indicators of the quality of … governance in a cross-section of developed and developing economies. We find that greater fiscal decentralization is associated …

The literature on the economics of fiscal decentralization stresses the potential for both positive and negative … empirical evidence by testing for a relationship between fiscal decentralization and changes in indicators of the quality of … governance in a cross-­section of developed and developing economies. We find that greater fiscal decentralization is …

Fiscal decentralization and intergovernmental fiscal relations reform have become nearly ubiquitous in developing …