on the ideal institutional setting of federalism in Switzerland. According to our findings, decentralization actually … the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation, since the inequality decreasing effect of fiscal … decentralization is counteracted by the interaction with jurisdictional fragmentation. Interestingly, it is not redistribution via …

setting in Switzerland to study the issue empirically. According to our findings tax decentralization tends to reduce … consider the interdependence of decentralization and fragmentation as inequality decreasing effects of decentralization are …

sub-national governments. The aim of this paper is to analyze the effect of revenue decentralization on the provision of … infrastructure at the sub-national level. We estimate the effects of revenue decentralization and earmarked grant financing on the …