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Designing Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations : Some Insights from the Recent Italian Reform

Arachi, Giampaolo; Zanardi, Alberto - 2003

During the last decade the Italian system of intergovernmental fiscal relations has been involved in a radical process of reform that is still under way. The reform has assigned to Regions a mix of new autonomous taxes and the sharing of national taxes, has abolished discretionary transfers and...

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On the political economy of tax limits

Calabrese, Stephen; Epple, Dennis - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2010

We study the political economy of state limitations on the taxing powers of local governments, investigating the effects of such restriction on housing markets, community composition, and types of taxes and expenditures undertaken by local governments. We characterize equilibrium when voters...

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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Economic Development

Pasichnyi, Mykola - 2019

. The relationship between the proper level of fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 27 advanced and emerging … associated with lower growth rates, while expenditures decentralization could slightly encourage economic development. The … overall decentralization indicator adversely affected the growth, but that interconnection was not robust. The empirical …

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Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on Non-Oil Economic Growth in a Resource-Rich Economy

Fakhri, Hasanov - 2020

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Fiscal decentralization, economic growth and human resource development in Nigeria : Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach

Udoh, Elijah; Afangideh, Udoma J.; Udeaja, Elias A. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 6 (2015) 1, pp. 69-93

decentralization supportive of economic growth and human resource development. …

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Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth : The Kenyan Experience

Mose, Naftaly - 2022

The effect of fiscal decentralization on economic growth has majorly been investigated in developed countries in … growth. The study was informed by neoclassical Solow-Swan growth model. In this context, a panel series data of 47 Kenyan … effect on sub national growth. However, on the second objective, tax revenue manifested a negative relationship with GCP …

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Fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected unitary European countries

Szarowská, Irena - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 9 (2014) 1, pp. 22-40

The article provides direct empirical evidence on fiscal decentralisation and economic development in selected European countries in a period 1995-2012. The research (based on data taken from OECD Fiscal Decentralisation Database and OECD) is performed on a panel, which contains 17 unitary...

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Coalition governments, cabinet size, and the common pool problem : evidence from the German states

Baskaran, Thushyanthan - 2013

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A Situational Theory of Pork-Barrel Politics : The Shifting Logic of Discretionary Allocations in India

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - 2017

Despite the extensive literature on distributive politics, we still lack a theory of how political and fiscal institutions interact to shape the pork‐barrelling ability of national leaders in a federal parliamentary democracy. Focusing on party system attributes and governmental incentives...

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Evidence on the Political Principal-Agent Problem from Voting on Public Finance for Concert Halls

Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

Principal-agent problems can arise when preferences of voters are not aligned with preferences of political representatives. Often the consequence of the political principal-agent problem is political catering to special interests. In this paper I provide examples of principal-agent problems...

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