Search Results - subject:"devolution"

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús - 2020

Patterns of political unification and fragmentation have crucial implications for comparative economic development. Diamond (1997) famously argued that "fractured land" was responsible for China's tendency toward political unification and Europe's protracted political fragmentation. We build a...

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The Principle of Transparency in the Ukrainian Decentralisation Reform

Slukhai, Sergii - 2020

After the Revolution of Dignity (2013–2014), the new Ukrainian government set out a number of reforms, one of which – and a successful one so far – was decentralisation, involving territorial amalgamation and re-allocation of public revenues and outlays in favour of the newly-established...

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Blockchain Technology and Decentralized Governance : The Pitfalls of a Trustless Dream

De Filippi, Primavera - 2020

Blockchain technology was first elaborated as a part of the Bitcoin network, a decentralizedpayment system and virtual currency that can be traded on a peer-to-peer network, without relying on banks or other financial institutions. Deployed in 2009 by a pseudonymous entity called Satoshi...

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Decentralized Renewable-Energy Delivery Model for 2050 Australia

Ceil, Chenoy - 2020

With increasing costs of energy consumption, there is growing demand for P2P energy sharing models by installation of distributed energy generation at the demand side. Installation of solar photovoltaic panels at Australian households are helping the cause in decentralizing the energy...

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Understanding Decentralisation : Deconcentration and Devolution Processes in the French and Italian Cultural Sectors

Santagati, Maria Elena - 2020

and devolution – and their impact on policy and management capacities at the local level is seldom investigated ….Design/Methodology/Approach: This article addresses this gap by examining the implementation of deconcentration and devolution processes in France and ….Findings: The article reconstructs the impacts of devolution and deconcentration processes on the emergence of policy and management …

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Is Bitcoin a Decentralized Payment Mechanism?

Luther, William J. - 2020

We make a distinction between centralized, decentralized, and distributed payment mechanisms. A centralized payment mechanism processes a transaction using a trusted third party. A decentralized payment mechanism processes a transaction between the parties to the transaction. A distributed...

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Deepening Decentralization in Zambia : Political Economy Constraints and Opportunities for Reform

Resnick, Danielle - 2020

Since the early 2000s, decentralization has been espoused as a major policy goal of successive Zambian governments. With the passing of the 2019 Local Government Act, a greater understanding is needed of how decentralization has progressed thus far in Zambia and how political economy dynamics...

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Decentralization and Mutual Liability Rules

Ketelaars, M.W. - 2020

This paper builds on the recent work of Groote Schaarsberg, Reijnierse and Borm (2018) on mutual liability problems. In essence, a mutual liability problem comprises a financial network in which agents may have both monetary individual assets and mutual liabilities. Here mutual liabilities...

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Decentralised Monetary Systems

Camilla, Natalya - 2020

Digital currencies are rising in popularity owing to their purported benefits and the speculative profits that investors are making in the market. These currencies, though decentralised in substance, can be purchased or traded across multiple digital currency platforms. In Africa, these...

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Coordination and Organization Design : Theory and Micro-Evidence

Dessein, Wouter - 2020

We explore the relationship between the volatility of a firm's local environment and its organizational structure. Using micro-level data on a large retailer, we empirically test and provide support for our hypothesis that a more volatile local environment results in more decentralization only...

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