Two key recent events pushed forward the country's decentralization agenda. In 2019, the Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court … decentralization strategy from national government, and (iii) the need for greater coordination and guidance from national agencies …

equity aspects fiscal decentralization, fiscal competition, fiscal externalities, and intergovernmental grants. The survey …

decentralization reform, politicians with different skills are elected in municipalities characterized by different levels of … difference in the tax base, following the decentralization reforms of the '90s. Results strongly support our predictions and are …

For almost two decades, starting from the early ‘90s, Italy experienced the strongest wave of decentralization reforms … situation of "fiscal federalism" in Italy before the crisis, summarizing the decentralization process in the ‘90s, its …

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 …