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This paper examines the role of political alignment and the electoral business cycle on municipality revenues in Greece for the period 2003-2010. A panel dataset combining local and national elections with local budgets is used to run a fixed-effects econometric model. The findings suggest that...
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The aim of this paper is to analyze how limits in revenue and spending autonomy of sub-sovereign governments influence their decisions. Revenue and spending autonomy indicators for Polish towns were established and used in analysis on school education expenditures during 2003–2016. The...
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The advantages and disadvantages of public sector decentralization are widely discussed in economics and political … science. Some authors argue that decentralization leads to an optimal provision of public services and promotes economic … studies the impact of fiscal decentralization on regional disparities. We find that a higher degree of decentralization is …
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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 …
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The advantages and disadvantages of public sector decentralization are widely discussed in economics and political … science. Some authors argue that decentralization leads to an optimal provision of public services and promotes economic … studies the impact of fiscal decentralization on regional disparities. We find that a higher degree of decentralization is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721515
decentralization in OECD countries. Based on a theoretical framework, the empirical panel analysis relates the degree of public sector … decentralization to economic and European integration, controlling for inter-regional heterogeneity, economies of scale, and …
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economic growth under fiscal decentralization policy in the context of China’s experience, using panel data for 28 provinces … that fiscal decentralization could improve regional growth in China. Finally, this paper finds that the use of extra …
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The paper provides empirical analysis of the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and the quality of public services in the Russian regions. The analysis suggests that fiscal decentralisation has no significant effect on the key inputs into secondary education, such as schools,...
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This paper examines whether revenue decentralization and direct external financial supervision affect the incidence and …
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