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 …

often not enforced, and tax decentralization falls far short of the recommendations of orthodox economists and international … minorities: in many of these states, personalist electoral institutions preserve excessive expenditure decentralization with a … Spain, it has had the contrary effect in developing countries. The political logics of federalism in the developing world …

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 …

governance, such as corruption, rule of law, and government effectiveness. Unlike previous studies in the decentralization …Based on cross-country data for up to 78 countries, this paper shows that fiscal decentralization-the assignment of …/governance literature, which focus primarily on expenditure-based measures of decentralization, the results reported in this paper show that …

We show that the efficacy of fiscal decentralization in enhancing economic growth and labor productivity growth depends … effects, we introduce a distinct measure of fiscal decentralization that serves as a proxy for taxes collected at the sub … practical in nature. In addition to proposing a new proxy for fiscal decentralization, we evaluate the permanent impact of …

group of countries. The magnitude of the coefficients of control of corruption, government effectiveness, political …