This paper examines the interactive impact of the state’s fiscal powers in the form of revenue decentralization when co-funded through central government grant transfers on the government's investment decisions in 18 major states of India between 2005-2016. Using system-GMM and other...

This study analyses a possible reason behind the ambiguous relationship between fiscal decentralization and government size by introducing the mediating factor of ethnic fragmentation. It is postulated that the heterogeneous needs and preferences of an ethnically fragmented region would lead to...