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 …

This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the … predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two … decentralization is endogenous and depends on the relative political conditions prevailing at each level of government. Consistent with …

. -- Decentralization ; Governance ; Legal Quality ; Judicial Independence ; Federalism ; Institutions …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 …

This is the introductory essay for the Economics of Federalism, a book edited by the authors and forthcoming in Edward … competitive federalism, stems from Tiebout's 1956 article. It focuses on the horizontal structure of federalism and examines … fiscal federalism, examines the vertical structure of federalism, or the division of public services and taxing power between …

Fiscal federalism in Mexico has been changing over the last thirty years. Subnational governments demand the return of … of the decentralization of taxation powers in the Mexican federal entities in the period 2005 to 2010? The thesis that … will be sustained throughout the trial is that progress has been made in terms of decentralization of spending in the …