This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …

This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

The paper confronts different aspects of decentralization: fiscal decentralization, postconstitutional regulatory … decentralization, and constitutional decentralization – using a single dataset from Russian Federation of the Yeltsin period as a … politically asymmetric country and a variety of indicators. It finds no robust correlation between different decentralization …

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: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and (2) decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …