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Is Secessionism Mostly about Income or Identity? A Global Analysis of 3,003 Subnational Regions

Desmet, Klaus; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; Özak, Ömer - 2022

This paper analyzes whether the propensity to secede by subnational regions responds mostly to differences in income per capita or to distinct identities. We explore this question in a quantitative political economy model where people's willingness to finance a public good depends on their...

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Policy responses to fiscal restraints: A difference-in-discontinuities design

Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - 2012

We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...

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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints: A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design

Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

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Information and Communication Technology, Hierarchy, and Job Design

Gerten, Elisa; Beckmann, Michael; Kräkel, Matthias - 2022

decentralization in firms. Previous literature on this debate has focused on a strict dichotomy between the two possible directions. In …

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Decentralizing Development: Evidence from Government Splits

Dahis, Ricardo; Szerman, Christiane - 2024

Changes in political boundaries aimed at devolving power to local governments are common in many countries. We examine the economic consequences of redistricting through the creation of smaller government units. Exploiting reforms that led to sharp variations in the number of government units in...

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The Importance of Being Local? Administrative Decentralization and Human Development

Chaudhary, Latika; Iyer, Lakshmi - 2024

governments in India, using state-level variation in the timing of administrative decentralization reforms. We find that …

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Delegation of Authority as an Optimal (In)complete Contract

Roider, Andreas - 2004

The present paper aims to contribute to the literature on the foundations of incomplete contracts by providing conditions under which simple delegation of authority is the solution to the complete-contracting problem of the parties. We consider a hold-up framework where both parties profit from...

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Good governance and good aid allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Government decentralization as a disincentive for transnational terror? An empirical analysis

Dreher, Axel; Fischer, Justina A. V. - 2009

decentralization on the occurrence of transnational terror. Our results show that expenditure decentralization reduces the number of … transnational terror events in a country, while political decentralization has no impact. These results are robust to the choice of …

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Fiscal decentralization and development: How crucial is local politics?

Pal, Sarmistha; Roy, Jaideep - 2010

Does fiscal decentralization in a politically decentralized less developed country help strengthen democratic … institutions at the grass root level? And is the impact of such decentralization on local politics important in determining local … development? Our study on Indonesia suggests that fiscal decentralization enhanced free and fair local elections, though the …

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