We analyze the implications of decentralization for the incentives of local governments to provide productivity …

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …

We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of … institutions can limit the destructive environmental effects of decentralization. The empirical results confirm a strand of the …

In this paper we offer a comprehensive and updated review of the impact of fiscal decentralization on the economy … decentralization: its proper measurement and the potential endogeneity of fiscal decentralization with many of the variables of … decentralization on a relevant list of socio-economic variables. The impact of fiscal decentralization reforms on political …

This study analyses a possible reason behind the ambiguous relationship between fiscal decentralization and government …, thereby increasing the level of aggregate government spending through fiscal decentralization. It is tested by employing a … comes into the picture, it dilutes the negative association, which is suggestive of the fact that fiscal decentralization …

pricipal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining … different degrees. This study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization …. - Federalism ; decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; economic effects of constitutions ; constitutional economics …

component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1 … study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization. -- federalism … ; decentralization ; fiscal federalism ; economic effects of constitutions ; constitutional economics …

principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining … degrees. This study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization …