Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Mennel, Tim - 2012
literature on decentralization that predicts a "race to the bottom" under federalism. The mitigating effect of good governance …We estimate the impact of fiscal decentralization on different indicators of pollution for more than 80 countries from … 1970 to 2000. Our cross country estimates show that fiscal decentralization increases pollution. However, higher quality of …