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Beyond the centre : tracing decentralization’s influence on time-varying fiscal sustainability

Afonso, António; Alves, José; Jalles, João Tovar; … - 2024

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 …

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Making sense of multi-level and multi-actor governance of recovery in Ukraine

Udovyk, Oksana; Kylymnyk, Ievgen; Cuesta-Delgado, Daniel; … - 2023

, which shows characteristics of decentralization while representing a rather centralized machine and tends to be multi …-up recovery process that leverages the decentralization potential and multi-actor energy is needed to benefit the current system …

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Losing territory : the effect of administrative splits on land use in the tropics

Cisneros Tersitsch, Marco Elías; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; … - 2023

State decentralization is often promoted to improve public service delivery. However, its effects on forest … conservation are ambiguous. Decentralization might not only improve local forest governance, but also change the incentives to …

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The importance of being local? : administrative decentralization and human development

Chaudhary, Latika; Lakshmi Iyer - 2024

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

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Fiscal delegation in a monetary union with decentralized public spending

Basso, Henrique S.; Costain, James - 2016

In a monetary union, the interaction between several governments and a single central bank is plagued by several sources of deficit bias, including common pool problems. Each government has strong preferences over local spending and taxation but suffers only part of the costs of union-wide...

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Religious heterogeneity and fiscal policy: Evidence from German reunification

Freier, Ronny; Geys, Benny; Holm, Joshua - 2013

Theoretical work based on social identity theory and in-group favoritism predicts that increased population diversity (e.g., due to immigration) reduces support for redistributive public policies. In this article, we add to the empirical literature testing this prediction in three ways. First,...

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Regression discontinuity designs based on population thresholds: Pitfalls and solutions

Eggers, Andrew C.; Freier, Ronny; Grembi, Veronica; … - 2015

In many countries, important features of municipal government (such as the electoral system, mayors' salaries, and the number of councillors) depend on whether the municipality is above or below arbitrary population thresholds. Several papers have used a regression discontinuity design (RDD) to...

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Incentive schemes for local government: Theory and evidence from comprehensive performance assessment in England

Lockwood, Benjamin; Porcelli, Francesco - 2011

This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...

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Bundesbeteiligung an den Kosten der Unterkunft – ein "pragmatischer" Transfer

Boettcher, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Geißler, René - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 101 (2021) 7, pp. 552-558

Die Beteiligung des Bundes an den Kosten der Unterbringung und Heizung (KdU) erfolgt seit der Einführung des SGB II 2005 mit dem Ziel, die Kommunen finanziell zu entlasten. Seitdem wurde die Bundesbeteiligung in Höhe, Struktur, Berechnung und Zweck beständig verändert. Der Beitrag zeigt, wie...

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Evolution of Fiscal Decentralisation in OECD Countries: A Club Convergence Analysis

Delgado, Francisco J.; Presno, Maria J. - In: Amfiteatru Economic 25 (2023) 63, pp. 558-574

We study the fiscal decentralisation patterns in OECD countries through a club convergence approach. Our analysis covers 30 countries spanning 1995 to 2018 and considers the noncentral expenditure and revenue sides with two perspectives, as percentage of GDP and as percentage of the total...

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