Adding to the literature on the effects of government decentralization, this paper uses a large sample of individual … study the relative influences of different types of decentralization, including fiscal decentralization, administrative … decentralization, federalism, and aggregate decentralization. Our results show that fiscal and administrative decentralization are …

This paper focuses on the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of fiscal resources at the regional level … implementation of decentralization is not only aimed at increasing fiscal capacity and efficiency, but also at enhancing … confirms that the degree of fiscal decentralization is the key determinant of state fiscal efficiency. Hence, despite the …

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 …