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Delfino Silva, Emilson - 2016

This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations where selfish regional governments provide regional and federal public goods and the benevolent central government implements interregional earmarked and income transfers. Without residential mobility, unlimited...

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Efficient decentralized leadership under hybrid work and attachment to regions

Aoyama, Naoto; Silva, Emilson C. D. - In: Games 14 (2023) 2, pp. 1-18

Under the 'new normal' in the labor market, individuals can work remotely or in person, a hybrid work mode that became ubiquitous during the pandemic. This paper studies the efficiency of decentralized leadership in federations in which hybrid work is the modus operandi. Self-interested regional...

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Institutional Model of Decentralization in Action

Azis, Iwan J. - 2012

Applying the Institutional Model of Decentralization, the paper argues that the presumption that local democracy will …, decentralization policy is welfare-enhancing only for the developed regions, not for all, exacerbating interregional welfare disparity …

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Decentralizing development : evidence from government splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...

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Merged Municipalities, Higher Debt : On Free-Riding and the Common Pool Problem in Politics

Jordahl, Henrik; Liang, Che-Yuan - 2014

This paper uses the Swedish municipal amalgamation reform of 1952 to study the common pool problem in politics. The amalgams were common pools and the municipalities had incentives to free-ride on their amalgam partners by increasing debt prior to amalgamation. We find that municipalities that...

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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana

Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021

investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … study. The results with regard to our two indicators of fiscal decentralization indicate that fiscal autonomy proxied by …

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Cooperation Among Local Councils for the Provision of Public Goods

Bartolini, David; Fiorillo, Fabio - 2011

In order to provide local public goods, municipalities can cooperate and exploit economies of scale and scope. We present an analytical model of the costs and benefits of two such forms of cooperation: Consortia and Unions. We find that the efficiency of these two forms of cooperation depends on...

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Fiscal Decentralisation, Local Institutions and Public Goods Provision : Evidence from Indonesia

Pal, Sarmistha - 2012

Using data from the Indonesian Family Life Surveys, this paper studies the impact of fiscal decentralisation in Indonesia on local public spending across communities with different types of local institutions. Our results provide evidence of heterogeneity in access to public goods across...

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Voting, Lobbying, and the Decentralization Theorem

Lockwood, Ben - 2009

This paper revisits the fiscal quot;decentralization theoremquot;, by relaxing the role of the assumption that … voting, (i) centralization can welfare-dominate decentralization even if there are no externalities and regions are … heterogenous; (ii) decentralization can welfare-dominate centralization even if there are positive externalities and regions are …

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Demand Side Factors of Local Public Services in Estonia

Reiljan, Janno - 2012

The goal of this paper is to quantitatively assess the relationships between the service structure and size and age structure of the population, as well as the income levels and employment structure of Estonian municipalities. The article consists of three parts. The first part deals with the...

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