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The Incentive Role of Creating "Cities" in China

Li, Lixing - 2008

This paper examines a distinctive mechanism of providing incentives to local governments – upgrading counties to "cities". In China, awarding city status to existing counties is the dominant way of creating new urban administrative units, during which the local government gets many benefits....

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On the optimal allocation of responsibilities among national and subnational governments

Shani, Ron; Reingewertz, Yaniv - 2024

This paper introduces a model for optimizing the provision of local public goods across national, regional, and local government tiers. We study how spillovers, heterogeneity of preferences, and economies of scale affect the decision to centralize or decentralize responsibilities among these...

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The Federal Approach to FiscalDecentralisation: Conceptual Contours for Policy Makers

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - 2003

Chanchal Kumar Sharma,in his paper demonstrates that in order for fiscal decentralisation to be effective, it must be approached federally. A federal approach is not a decentralised approach but a dynamically balanced approach; one that constantly keeps on adjusting the contrasting forces of...

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Why Decentralization ? The Puzzle of causation

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - 2004

decentralization. In addition there is external pressure coming from IMF and WB who implicitly and explicitly have declared … ‘decentralization’ as their most favoured policy prescription especially for the developing world. …

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Decentralization Dilemma: Measuring the Degree and Evaluating the Outcomes

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - 2004

Though decentralization for past one and half decade or so has become the most favoured policy priority among the … policy makers yet the countries around the world differ dramatically in the degree of decentralization that is accommodated …. While diversity in degree of decentralization across the world is a fact yet there is no consensus in the empirical …

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Information Theory and an Entropic Approach to an Analysis of Fiscal Inequality

Vo, Duc - 2019

governments. As an illustration for the case of Vietnam, the true degree of ﬁscal decentralization has e�ectively been decreased …

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When Does decentralization deliver? The Dilemma of Design

Sharma, Chanchal Kumar - 2005

Decentralization since early 1990s has become one of the buzzwords of the development paradigms. Among all ingredients … of decentralization, the fiscal component of it has a special significance. Not surprisingly the literature unanimously … among different objectives of each level and resolve tensions between them. Thus, the fiscal decentralization is in vogue …

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Fitness landscape and tax planning: NK model for fiscal federalism

Faggini, Marisa; Parziale, Anna - 2011

Economic models of Fiscal Federalism, according to different settings, are generally linear and static, offering unique and deterministic solutions starting with simplifying assumptions. This paper rises from the idea to investigate how the decision-makers, abandoning their traditional economic...

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Choosing Electoral Rules in the Presence of Corruption

Tavares, Samia - 2007

Corruption is a problem that has been shown to adversely affect a country’s development. Recent studies have shown that a country’s electoral system can affect its corruption level. But if that is the case, then electoral rules could be chosen to maximize opportunities for corruption. This...

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Optimal design of intergovernmental grants in a dynamic model

Zou, Heng-fu - 2012

This paper outlines a dynamic model with three levels of government: federal, state and local in the Stackelberg game structure with the superor government as the leader and all its subordinate governments the followers.It studies the optimal design of block grants and matching grants from both...

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