between states. Trade barriers reduced the benefits of a common market and undermined market-preserving federalism (Weingast …

potentially equally broad taxing power. This Article draws on the spending power literature to illuminate the analogous federalism … suggest that federal tax regulation represents less of a federalism threat than do conditional grants to the states. For …

present time has to be federally flexible and dynamically decentralised and institutions of fiscal federalism are crucial for … federalism if it is to be successful, irrespective of the fact of whether it is being carried out in a federal or non …

even when we control for the conventional measure of fiscal decentralization. Finally, we compare federalism, Chinese style …, to federalism, Russian style …

Cooperative fiscal federalism needs a multi-level consent to decide on the allocation of intergovernmental transfers … transfers to municipal governments under this type of federalism. Using a regression discontinuity design in close electoral … supporting the swing voter hypothesis, our results suggest that federalism inherently entails restrictions for misusing …