explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization’ and ‘centralization’ — when ‘knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision making controls the degree of decentralization …

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

public goods. Therefore, my findings indicate that decentralization can lead to a failure in the provision of local public …

. With this the location or site of governance is changing. Thus the need is to situate the debate on decentralization in … context of globalization. It has been argued that 'how decentralization is designed' depends on 'why decentralization is being …