governments will contract more with the private sector. Then, I use the 2001 decentralization reform in Colombia to test these …Using a simple model of incomplete contracts to characterize the relationship between decentralization and contracting … of the fact that the level of decentralization is decided using an exogenous population threshold to identify causal …

In this paper I evaluate the impact of the 2001 decentralization reform in Colombia. I use data from Colombia … earnmarked national transfers, withthe reform some of then now have more responsabilities to provide education (deeper decen-tralization …

We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of … institutions can limit the destructive environmental effects of decentralization. The empirical results confirm a strand of the …

decentralization indicators the author make conclusions on how these officially declared aims have been realised and formulated main …