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 …

The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … different cases, we conclude that the political force of the decentralization-theorem (Oates) is a sole and inverse function of … the population size of the nation: Next, the question is addressed how the gains from federalism react to variations in …

Globalization of economic activities and decentralization of government organization are occurring simultaneously. We … consider the implications of government decentralization for intra-national and international trade. Decentralization can … to inbound foreign direct investment suggest a stronger positive effect of decentralization on imports relative to …

The paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on governance employing four indicators of governance and five … measures of decentralization. Depending on data availability, crosssections for a maximum of 129 countries are estimated …. Results for a panel of about 70 countries over the period 1984-2001 are also presented. The results show that decentralization …

on the ideal institutional setting of federalism in Switzerland. According to our findings, decentralization actually …This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal federalism on income inequality and redistribution. Economic theory delivers … the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation, since the inequality decreasing effect of fiscal …

the last three decades, as well as the literature on decentralization in health and federalism and social policies, the … contributions, the study stresses that the results of decentralization may be negative for efficiency in management and for equity …

. -- Federalism ; Decentralization ; Outvoted …The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the … different cases, we conclude that the political force of the decentralization-theorem (Oates) is a sole and inverse function of …