federalism if we use our first indicator - the share of the sum of the highest number of outvoted. If instead we employ the … shares of the average number of outvoted, then there is still a slight increase in the gains of federalism. Using the last …The political blessings of federalism are the core of our discussion. These benefits are operationalized as the …

. We show the potential existence of a poverty trap as a result of decentralization in taxation decisions. …

The paper is concerned with what Albert Breton, in his theory of competitive federalism has called vertical competition … government playing the role of a monitor. As is illustrated by the decentralization experience in France, a lively vertical …

Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To … analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels … decentralization is desirable only if the benefits of vertical complementarity in public good provision outweigh the costs of reduced …

. -- Federalism ; Decentralization ; Outvoted … federalism if we use our first indicator - the share of the sum of the highest number of outvoted. If instead we employ the … shares of the average number of outvoted, then there is still a slight increase in the gains of federalism. Using the last …

This paper empirically investigates the underlying determinants of expenditure decentralization, based on the … predictions of a new political economy model of partial decentralization. The analysis is based on an agency model, in which two … decentralization is endogenous and depends on the relative political conditions prevailing at each level of government. Consistent with …

Decentralization reforms typically lead to the coexistence of multiple tiers of government in a given policy area. To … analyze the welfare effects of such partial decentralization, this paper develops a political agency model in which two levels … decentralization is desirable only if the benefits of vertical complementarity in public good provision outweigh the costs of reduced …

minimizing informational spillovers. To address this failure, we introduce a dynamic form of federalism in which the central …