This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes of expenditure decentralization, based on the predictions of … a new political economy model of partial fiscal decentralization. Under shared expenditure responsibility, the degree of … decentralization is endogenous and depends on the relative political conditions prevailing at each level of government. Our empirical …

The right way to measure the degree and extent of the different aspects of fiscal decentralization has been a long … sometimes needed to show a general trend in fiscal decentralization and reveal relationship to other variables in empirical … studies. In particular, several composite indicators of fiscal decentralization have been proposed, but there are very few …

decentralization should increase electoral control due to the fact that under centralization the incumbent only needs to please the … derived from bundling the provision of both types of public goods, whereas under decentralization there are potential …

, fiscal grants systems under decentralization may also have result in the same. We investigate this issue to identify the …

This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data … that decentralization decreases regional inequalities in general. However, estimations using an interaction variable … approach imply that the effect depends on the level of economic development. While rich countries benefit from decentralization …

This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel … data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels …. Results for 185 countries show that while tax decentralization often hampers the degree of fiscal responsiveness, potentially …

categories; and ii) decentralization implies lower performance only when it comes with weak competences of procurement officials …