This paper investigates the relationship between public sector employment and fiscal decentralization. We develop a theoretical framework modeling the interactions between the central and sub-national executives regarding the level of public employment at the central and sub-national government...

This paper applies Kocherlakota and Yi's (1997) model to discuss the effects of public investment and tax policies (tax burden and tax mix) on economic growth using Taiwanese data from 1960 to 2010. These effects changed structurally in 1990. First, public investment had no impact on economic...