-national governments in Belgium, Italy, and Spain, while re-centralization of health sector expenditures was the cause of the decline in …) - defined as the share of sub-national own spending not financed through own revenues - in four European countries: Belgium …, Italy, Norway, and Spain. The decline in VFI was achieved through progressive devolution of revenues to sub …

For almost two decades, starting from the early ‘90s, Italy experienced the strongest wave of decentralization reforms … situation of "fiscal federalism" in Italy before the crisis, summarizing the decentralization process in the ‘90s, its …

Recent theories on fiscal decentralization support the view that sub-national governments who finance a larger share of …. In this paper we exploit a reform aimed at increasing regional tax autonomy in Italy to provide quasi …-experimental evidence on the impact of fiscal decentralization on health disparities between- and within-regions. Our findings, robust to a …

We study the impact of taxation on the location choices of individuals and tax bases in Italy. We exploit some recent … tax decentralization reforms, which granted regions and municipalities greater power in setting income tax rates across …