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Does government accounting information matter to gain votes? : evidence from local elections in Indonesia

Purwanti, Dyah - In: Gadjah Mada international journal of business 25 (2023) 3, pp. 355-383

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Elections and De Facto Expenditure Decentralization in Canada

Jametti, Mario - 2014

This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the … predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two … decentralization is endogenous and depends on the relative political conditions prevailing at each level of government. Consistent with …

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Elections and De Facto Expenditure Decentralization in Canada

Jametti, Mario - 2014

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Working paper No. 240 Bloc – party Politics and Economic Outcomes. What Are the Effects of Local Parties?

Lakomaa, Erik; Korpi, Martin - Ratioinstitutet - 2014

In a much cited 2008 article, Per Pettersson-Lidbom uses regression discontinuity to test for Swedish party effects on economic policies such as municipal taxation, spending and employment. We reassess the issue using the same estimator as Pettersson-Lidbom but new data on all factual...

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Decentralization and fiscal autonomy at the subnational level in Indonesia

Vidyattama, Yogi - In: Journal of Southeast Asian economies 38 (2021) 3, pp. 320-335

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Does decentralization improve the efficiency in the allocation of public investment? Evidence from Spain

Esteller, Alejandro; Solé, Albert - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2005

The well-known "Decentralization Theorem" (Oates, 1972) establishes the superiority of decentralized public provision … capital stocks by region both before and after the decentralization of such responsibilities. We find that investment in both …

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Do equalisation payments affect subnational borrowing? : evidence from regression discontinuity

Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Pitlik, Hans - 2016

According to the fiscal federalism literature sub-central budget constraints become softer when local governments are more dependent on revenues over which they have no discretion. As a consequence of higher "transfer dependency", sub-central governments can expect to be bailed out by the...

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Fiscal Decentralization in Specific Areas of Government. A Technical Note

Leonardo Letelier S.; Lozano, José Luis Sáez - In: Economía Mexicana NUEVA ÉPOCA XXII (2013) 2, pp. 357-373

political economy aspects in explaining the degree of fiscal decentralization. It innovates in making explicit the benefits from … public goods (Scale Effect) resulting from decentralization. It takes advantage of previous literature in recognizing the … social cost benefit analysis of decentralization. Second, the aforementioned effects are put into the context of specific …

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Polarization and local conflicts in post decentralization Indonesia

Azis, Iwan J.; Pratama, Alvin - In: Peace economics, peace science and public policy 26 (2020) 2, pp. 1-28

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Do absolute majorities spend less? : evidence from Germany

Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - 2012

The number of parties in government is usually considered to increase spending. We show that this is not necessarily the case. Using a new method to detect close election outcomes in multi-party systems, we isolate truly exogenous variation in the type of government. With data from...

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