This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …

This paper analyses the effect of federalism on fertility and growth. In a model with human capital accumulation and … lower or higher under federalism. Interestingly, the fertility differential is reversed: while under central finance, rich …

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 …

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 …

representative sample of the German population. In line with the decentralization theorem, the support for mergers increases with …

Empirical research on decentralization plays a crucial role in the modern public economics. This paper surveys the … literature, discussing the emergence of positive studies of decentralization as an endogenous parameter, which hence attempt to … find out the main factors determining the degree of decentralization in individual countries. …

Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To … analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels … decentralization is desirable only if the benefits of vertical complementarity in public good provision outweigh the costs of reduced …