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Why adopt a federal constitution? : and why decentralize? : determinants based on a new dataset

Gutmann, Jerg; Voigt, Stefan - 2017

Measurement of both federalism and decentralization has been contentious. We introduce three new indicators reflecting … important aspects of both federalism and decentralization. The three new indicators are the result of principal component … evidence that it is important to distinguish between federalism and decentralization, if one is interested in ascertaining …

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The role of subnational governments in the Covid-19 pandemic response : are there opportunities for intergovernmental fiscal reform in the post-pandemic world?

Smoke, Paul J.; Gómez Álvarez, David; Muñoz, Andrés; … - 2022

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Fiscal centralization : a remedy for corruption?

Rosselló Villalonga, Joan - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 9 (2018) 4, pp. 457-474

The empirical evidence on the relationship between political decentralization and corruption is far from clear. We develope a model that analizes the relationship between decentralization and corruption and show how cost–benefit calculations can lead public administrations to tolerate a...

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Fiscal Decentralization and Government Size : An International Test for Leviathan Accounting for Unmeasured Economic Activity

Anderson, John E.; Van den Berg, Hendrik - 1998

Tests for the presence of Leviathan, evidenced by a positive relationship between the size of government measured as a percentage of GDP, and the degree of fiscal centralization, have provided mixed results. We derive alternative measures of the size of government taking into account household...

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