than yardstick competition, with capital controls and fiscal decentralization shaping the magnitude of fiscal interactions …

decentralization on economic growth. Much of the traditional literature focuses on the efficiency aspects of a decentralized provision … of public services. However, decentralization may also increase growth by raising the ability of the political system to … innovate and carry out reforms. On the contrary, some authors argue that decentralization increases corruption and government …

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 empirically studies the impact of decentralization on foreign aid effectiveness. For this purpose, we … decentralization. Our panel estimations reveal that fiscal decentralization negatively impacts aid effectiveness, while measures of … political decentralization have no significant effect or even a positive one. This result is robust for grants and overall ODA …

support. Budget support increases the involvement of recipient governments in the decision-making process and can thus be an … example of a “delegation-scheme.” Conversely, project aid represents a more “centralized” type of aid. According to the theory …

-agent framework, it analyzes two alternative policy-decision schemes — ‘decentralization' and ‘centralization' — when ‘knowledge … government levels. It is shown that, depending on which level of policy decision-making controls the degree of decentralization … explaining variation in the degree of decentralization across countries. Within a two-sided incomplete information principal …

model to account for this. The idea is that decentralization serves as a commitment device to ensure that ex post chose … policies will reflect regional preferences, thereby boosting individual productive effort incentives. This theory may explain … the decentralization process in China in 1980-1990s, as well as the fact that government decentralization is generally …

comparing decentralized and centralized system. As in the recent Second Generation Theory (SGT) of fiscal federalism (Seabright … production cost of the public good in each region, a different trade-off - from the traditional and new theory of fiscal …. Given this general framework, the convenience of decentralization versus centralization mainly depends on the interaction …