. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

of this phenomenon in the Chinese context in terms of administrative decentralization. Administrative decentralization is …. Decentralization increases communication costs associated with the implementation of law, and changes the structure of taxpayers' costs …

different cases, we conclude that the political force of the decentralization-theorem (Oates) is a sole and inverse function of …. -- Federalism ; Decentralization ; Outvoted …

potential disadvantage with decentralization in our model is that local dominant groups with rather extreme preferences may win … the centralized solution may welfare dominate decentralization even in the absence of scale economics and interregional …, factors that are normally considered to be arguments in favor of decentralization, may reduce the attractiveness of the …

comparing decentralized and centralized system. As in the recent Second Generation Theory (SGT) of fiscal federalism (Seabright … production cost of the public good in each region, a different trade-off - from the traditional and new theory of fiscal …. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction …

Fiscal decentralization is high on the agenda in policy fora. This paper empirically investigates the underlying causes … of fiscal decentralization, based on the predictions of a simple political economy model. We argue that the likeliness …, the theory's main insight being that the central government's electoral strength should, all else being equal, decrease …