The paper reviews Bulgaria's inter-governmental finances and the process of fiscal decentralization during the early …

explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization' and ‘centralization' — when ‘knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision-making controls the degree of decentralization …

on fiscal decentralization suggesting that redistribution is most effectively carried out at sub-central levels of … that the decentralization of government expenditure can help achieve a more equal distribution of income. However, several … conditions need to be fulfilled: i) the government sector needs to be sufficiently large, ii) decentralization should be …

This paper examines the interactive impact of the state’s fiscal powers in the form of revenue decentralization when co … the positive effect of revenue decentralization on the states' investment decision. In simpler terms, the higher the use … of central grants to fund regional infrastructure investment, the lower is the impact of revenue decentralization …

panel data and apply causal machine learning methods to identify the effects of decentralization on the statutory tax …

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 … across states of India. We find that fiscal decentralization reduces the disparity across states, and the effect of fiscal …

Most contemporary decentralization has occurred at the local (district) rather than regional (provincial) level. Why … government in favor decentralizing to smaller, more fragmented units. Regional decentralization can better take advantage of … effectively. Central authorities may therefore have an incentive to forgo the welfare benefits of regional decentralization in …

This paper studies how fiscal decentralization affects local services. It explores a 1993 reform that increased the … identification leverages cross-municipal variation in the degree of decentralization that stems from bombings during WWII …. Decentralization reduced local spending but expanded municipal services, such as nursery schools. These effects are larger in areas …

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …