Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Ezcurra, Roberto - Instituto de Ciencias Sociales, Instituto Madrileño de … - 2009
This paper looks at the relationship between fiscal and political decentralization and the evolution of regional inequalities in a panel of 26 countries -- 19 developed and 7 developing -- for the period between 1990 and 2006. Using an instrumental variables method, it finds that whereas for the...