The article examines transfers between regions via the central government budget, referring essentially to the regional household accounts published by the National Accounts Institute. It examines only the aspects concerning allocation between the regions of that part of government revenue and...

The paper examines the incentive effects of federal fiscal transfers on states' spending in India. To this end, a panel data set for 22 states for the period 1980-81 to 2004-05 is used; and fixed and random effect panel regression models are employed. Per capita resource transfers in channel...

El incremento de las transferencias ligadas a la explotación de industrias extractivas hacia los gobiernos subnacionales ha sido significativo en los últimos años. Ello ha estado acompañado de un crecimiento de la volatilidad de los mismos tanto entre las municipalidades en cada año así...

Downloadable document is in Spanish. In this paper we estimate the proposed tax reforms that significantly increased the collection of the tax industry, commerce, notices and boards (ICA) in Bogotá through the VAR methodology, for the period 1961-2004. In this context, would be considered...

This paper investigates whether the costs of corruption are conditional on the extent of government intervention in the economy. We use data on corruption convictions and economic growth between 1975 and 2007 across the U.S. states to test this hypothesis. Although no state approaches the level...

This papers analyzes the disciplining role of elections under asymmetric information when voters have to rely on relative performance evaluation to tame the Leviathan. If elections are held in different regions, voters are able to reduce political rents below the Leviathan outcome by carrying...

In many countries, governments are pushing for the introduction of competition in the organization of public services and more broadly in public procurement. The development of public-private partnerships throughout the world is a good illustration of this trend. In order to foster competition,...

Andhra Pradesh is one of the pioneering States to earnestly initiate economic and fiscal reform at the Subnational level in India. Prior to the 1996 reform program, the State's budgetary position was under severe stress as in many States in India. The economic growth was below potential,...

The economic slow-down of several States in India including Gujarat during the later half of 90s has caused considerable disturbance in the State's fiscal equilibrium. The fiscal deficit has more than doubled during last five years and government's debt has jumped up from 17 percent of GSDP to...

Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated. While diversity in degree of decentralization across the...