appear to benefit. -- Decentralization ; Regional Disparity ; Inequality ; Fiscal Federalism ; Panel Data Evidence …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 …

redistributional consequences should be taken into account. -- regional inequality ; decentralization ; panel data …This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data … set which covers 56 countries at different stages of economic develop-ment. Cross-section and panel data estimations show …

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 … interregional redistribution. Using cross-section and panel data for 23 OECD countries from 1982 to 2000, this paper empirically …

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 … interregional redistribution. Using cross-section and panel data for 23 OECD countries from 1982 to 2000, this paper empirically …

sub-national governments. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of revenue decentralization on the provision of … infrastructure at the sub-national level. We estimate the effects of revenue decentralization and earmarked grant financing on the … compared to those obtained when using sub-national investment in redistribution, for which the theory predictions are different …

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 …

specifications of fiscal decentralization and alternate estimation methods accounting for endogeneity. From the policy perspective … between fiscal decentralization and regional income disparities. Fiscal decentralization may affect regional disparities via … institutions, in the form of anti-corruption efforts by the states, interact with fiscal decentralization in impacting divergence …

This paper deals with the problems encountered in defining and measuring the degree of fiscal decentralization. Drawing … on a recent analytical framework of the OECD, different measures of fiscal autonomy and revenue decentralization are …-making competencies in the course of time, new time series of annual data on the degree of fiscal decentralization are provided for 23 …