How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size?
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In this article, the authors examine how different fiscal decentralization measures affect the sizes of national and subnational (state and local combined) governments and find that expenditure decentralization leads to smaller national governments, larger subnational governments, and larger aggregate governments.About:
This article is published in Journal of Urban Economics.The article was published on 2002-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 254 citations till now.read more
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Table 2B The time path of average government sizes by country group 
Table 4A Decentralization and subnational government size (fixed effects) 
Table 6B Decentralization and aggregate government size (FGLS) 
Table 2B The time path of average government sizes by country group 
Table 5A Decentralization and national government size (fixed-effects) 
Table 5A Decentralization and national government size (fixed-effects)
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The architecture of government : rethinking political decentralization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a decentralization approach based on checks, balances, and freedom, where data to the rescue is used to solve the problem of ethnic conflict and secession.
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Decentralized Taxation and the Size of Government: Evidence from Swiss State and Local Governments
Lars P. Feld,Lars P. Feld,Gebhard Kirchgässner,Gebhard Kirchgässner,Christoph A. Schaltegger +4 more
TL;DR: The authors used a state and local-level panel data set of Swiss cantons from 1980 to 1998 to empirically analyze the effect of different federalist institutions on the size and structure of government revenue.
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The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey.
TL;DR: A comprehensive and updated review of the impact of decentralization on the economy, society and politics can be found in this article, where the authors discuss the main findings in the existing literature on the effects of decentralisation on a relevant list of socioeconomic variables.
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Did New Public Management Matter? An Empirical Analysis of The Outsourcing and Decentralization Effects on Public Sector Size
TL;DR: This paper found that government outsourcing did not reduce public sector size, though decentralization policies resulted in a smaller public sector, particularly with regard to government expenditure, and they concluded that decentralization did not lead to a larger public sector.
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Fiscal decentralization and environmental pollution: Evidence from Chinese panel data☆
TL;DR: Li et al. as mentioned in this paper found that fiscal decentralization has no significant effect on environmental pollution as it is measured per capita emission of wastewater, waste gas or solid waste in system GMM (Generalized method of moments) estimation.
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A Pure Theory of Local Expenditures
TL;DR: The authors show that the Musgrave-Samuelson analysis, which is valid for federal expenditures, need not apply to local expenditures, and restate the assumptions made by Musgrave and Samuelson and the central problems with which they deal.
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The dangers of decentralization
TL;DR: The benefits of decentralization in allocative efficiency are not as obvious as suggested by the standard theory of fiscal federalism as mentioned in this paper, but more empirical research is needed on this point.
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Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Study*
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a panel data set of 46 countries over the 1970-1989 period to investigate the relationship between decentralization and economic growth in developing countries, but none in developed countries.
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Fiscal Decentralization, Public Spending, and Economic Growth in China
Heng-Fu Zou,Heng-Fu Zou +1 more
TL;DR: Zhang et al. as mentioned in this paper found that the 15 years of efforts to promote decentralization in China have failed to promote economic growth in China's provinces, which is surprising in the light of arguments that fiscal decentralization usually promotes provincial or local economic growth.
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Fiscal decentralization, public spending, and economic growth in China
TL;DR: This paper found that a higher degree of decentralization was associated with lower provincial economic growth over the past 15 years in China, which implies that fiscal reforms begun in China in the early 1980s have probably failed to promote the country's economic growth.