conflicts and endogenous decentralization, dealing with the structure and borders of jurisdictions. …

minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Theoretically … setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …

rivalry in consumption of the publicly provided good. We identify three sources of welfare loss from decentralization … characteristics of the publicly provided good are an important determinant for the welfare costs of decentralization. …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, post-constitutional regulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … politically asymmetric country. It finds virtually no correlation between different decentralization aspects; moreover, three …

This paper reviews the decentralization process in Eastern and Southern Africa. It begins with an analysis of the socio …-economic as well as the political challenges confronting most countries in the region. This analysis places the decentralization … decentralization and local democracy in order to come up with a clear understanding of the different forms of decentralization as well …