In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed … fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric analysis, we examine the relationship between fiscal decentralization and … the shadow economy. We hypothesize that decentralization can negatively or positively affect the size of the shadow …

's decentralization policies and also, in informing future policymaking. In particular, it highlights the importance of (i) a well …

. However, several studies have neglected the role of institutions and other institutional settings in fiscal decentralization …. This study augments the literature by revisiting the fiscal decentralization-growth nexus regarding institutional quality …

Fiscal federalism theorists have long been intrigued by the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty … provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty. It focuses on how the function … of institutional quality can explain the relationship between fiscal decentralization and poverty in 53 developing …

In this essay, I argue that the various institutional settings of fiscal decentralization observed in developing … Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) to address the issue of endogeneity, which is a common issue in fiscal decentralization … studies. The findings show a strong nonlinear relationship between institutional quality and fiscal decentralization metrics …