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 economies in Europe from 1992 to 2017 was evaluated using...

In this paper, I examine the impact of fiscal decentralization on state-level economic growth in India. There is little empirical evidence testing for a non-uniform impact of fiscal decentralization within a country. I build a social development index (SDI) to characterize 15 Indian states into...

Nigeria has been a federation before 1963. This was expected to foster speedy growth and development, but military interferences seem to have bedevil this dream. However, an uninterrupted democracy for about 20 years should have produced a significant result, but not much has changed. Many have...

The article provides direct empirical evidence on fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected European countries in a period 1995-2012. The research (based on data taken from OECD Fiscal Decentralisation Database and OECD) is performed on a panel, which contains 17 unitary...

We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not...

Die drei Länder gehörten lange Zeit zu den klassischen Zahlern im Länderfinanzausgleich. Mittlerweile hat sich ihre Finanzkraft und damit ihr Beitrag zum Länderfinanzausgleich drastisch verringert. Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Der Autor stellt dar, dass die wesentliche Ursache in der...

We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not...

Die drei Länder gehörten lange Zeit zu den klassischen Zahlern im Länderfinanzausgleich. Mittlerweile hat sich ihre Finanzkraft und damit ihr Beitrag zum Länderfinanzausgleich drastisch verringert. Wie ist es dazu gekommen? Der Autor stellt dar, dass die wesentliche Ursache in der...

We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not...

Geoffrey Brennan and James M. Buchanan, in their 1980 book The Power to Tax, hypothesize that “the potential for fiscal exploitation varies inversely with the number of competing governmental units in the inclusive territory.” This paper tests that theory at the local level using data for US...