counter- vailing effects, we exploit a policy reform in Norway with a gradual implementation of reference pricing across …

This paper explores the nuanced relationship between fiscal decentralization and fiscal sustainability. Employing panel … data analyses, it scrutinizes how decentralization influences fiscal discipline across different governmental levels …. Results for 185 countries show that while tax decentralization often hampers the degree of fiscal responsiveness, potentially …

. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction … regions. To summarize, from a positive viewpoint, decentralization should not be necessarily pursued only in the absence of …

The majority of theoretical and empirical studies on the relationship between decentralization and corruption argues …-country data, we analyze the relationship between decentralization and corruption taking different degrees of the freedom of the … press into account. Our main finding is that decentralization counteracts corruption in countries with high degrees of press …

This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data … that decentralization decreases regional inequalities in general. However, estimations using an interaction variable … approach imply that the effect depends on the level of economic development. While rich countries benefit from decentralization …

This paper studies the impact of decentralization on the shadow economy. We argue that decentralization may decrease … the size of the shadow economy mainly through two transmission channels: (1) Decentralization enhancing public sector … efficiency (efficiency effect), and (2) decentralization reducing the distance between bureaucrats and economic agents, which …

the risk of internal conflict. Fiscal and political decentralization as an institutional arrangement for rent-sharing and … decentralization. …

) provides little evidence that budget constraints at the cantonal level affect municipal finances and fiscal decentralization …