This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public sector centralization in Germany … for a continuous process of government centralization as suggested by Popitz' "law", but rather for some distinct … provides no clear evidence for a causal relationship between economic and European integration and fiscal decentralization in …

Public sector centralization, public inputs, economic growth, fiscal federalism …

decentralization in OECD countries. Based on a theoretical framework, the empirical panel analysis relates the degree of public sector … decentralization to economic and European integration, controlling for inter-regional heterogeneity, economies of scale, and … associated with increasing centralization. …

Applying a differences-in-differences strategy, I study the decentralization of university admission as a natural … analysis uses administrative data on all students within Germany and complements the prominent theoretical literature on … college admission. The results show that the matching efficiency increased in course of the decentralization. This increase is …

System ; Organization ; Decentralization ; Labor Market Integration …