Although reassignment of policy instruments among governments in many federations is a recurring event, there is no widely accepted, positive model of the phenomenon. This stands in contrast to the well established body of work on the normative theory of the efficient federal assignment. In this...

The Philippines embraced a devolution agenda in 1991, leading to the enactment of the Local Government Code (LGC). Despite over three decades of implementation, devolution has remained incomplete, giving rise to the blurred accountability between the national government and local governments...

Enhancing green innovation is the key to realizing high-quality development and the "dual-carbon" goal. This paper takes the data from Chinese cities from 2000 to 2018 as a sample to test the impact and mechanism of local governments' competition for the environment on urban green innovation....