This study examines the effects of fiscal decentralization on corruption by analyzing whether the degree of fiscal decentralization facilitates or mitigates the number of corruption cases in Indonesia's local governments. The research utilizes a panel data model and a system Generalized Method...

Fiscal decentralization in south Asian region is taken up as tool to settle economic inefficiencies. The reliance of present study is to locate for the fact that either it is true in case of such economies. To do so, non-stationary panel data analyses was used for the period from 1990 to 2016....

This paper revisits the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth by addressing the endogeneity issue stemming from reverse causality and unobserved factors that has plagued previous extensive literature on this subject. In our approach, we use the Geographic Fragmentation...

Many countries have adopted decentralization policies in order to strengthen democratic governance. Nevertheless, empirical literature on whether decentralization actually strengthens democratic governance is relatively limited when compared to empirical literature on the impact of...