communist government itself for decentralization …

response. In this paper, we explore the effect that competition for residents induced by fiscal decentralization has on 'waste … an additional advantage of fiscal decentralization …

of centralization stressed in the existing literature disappear, suggesting that the case for decentralization must be … driven by political economy considerations. Our political economy analysis assumes that under decentralization public goods …

potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather "extremeʺ preferences may … result is that the centralized solution may welfare dominate decentralization even in the absence of scale economics and … preferences, factors that are normally considered to be arguments in favor of decentralization, may reduce the attractiveness of …