[PDF] Top 20 Fiscal decentralization, ideology, and the size of the public sector

... Hypothesis A: Fiscal decentralization leads to a larger aggregate public sector size than centralization when a left wing party controls the federal government, and to a smaller aggregat[r] ... See full document

... general public services, social protection and health care, while defense and economic affairs are the biggest losers in election ...political ideology rather than political strength and re-election ... See full document

... structures, size and structure of the market, which also have a significant effect on a firm’s ...both public and private sectors (also see Stiglitz (1992) for ...private sector runs the railways, ... See full document

... the size of government spending and thus fail to reflect the level of efficiency in delivering government ...between decentralization and government output can be due to omitted variable ...on public ... See full document

... the fiscal federalism literature (Levine and Renelt,1992; Rodden, 2003; Fiva,2006; Cassette and Paty, 2010), which traditionally has been concerned about the effect of certain poli- cies on the size of ... See full document

... that decentralization increases student achievement while government size tends to reduce it, one would expect, in line with the finding for life satisfaction in Bjørnskov et ...that decentralization ... See full document

... of public health expenditure from the aspects of fiscal system, fiscal expenditure structure and expenditure ...ability, fiscal decentralization will reduce the efficiency of ... See full document

... of public goods supply, both in terms of efficiency and political ...of decentralization measures, which followed a top down approach and were slowly implemented without any integrated ... See full document

... on fiscal decentralization (FD) and analyze the advantages and disadvantages of shifting fiscal responsibilities to sub national ...the size of government and the effect of FD on tax ... See full document

... 2008). Fiscal decentralization is among the key components of the reform and opening-up policy in China, and its antecedents and consequences received much academic attention (Shen, Jin, and Zou ...Chinese ... See full document

... commission. Decentralization is now being considered as an instrument of poverty reduction and enhancing social ...welfare. Decentralization focuses on the devolution of fiscal power and authority ... See full document

... More formal tests (with the sktest and iqr test facilities implemented in Stata) suggest the presence of two outliers: Belgium in 1981 and the Netherlands in 1987. Without these two observations, the hypothesis of ... See full document

... government size and decentralisation, Nelson (1986) also finds no evidence in support of the Leviathan hypothesis for the state govern- ments in the ...government size used in Oates (1985) and Nelson (1986) ... See full document

... the fiscal federalism literature there is a long standing debate on the expected effects of fiscal decentralization on the size of the government as well as its ...of decentralization ... See full document

... greater fiscal capacity on aver- age still have more revenue than those with smaller fiscal ...smaller fiscal capacities, but because of the poorly determined status in the system of fi- nancing, in ... See full document

... of public goods and ...of fiscal federalism argues that the redistribution of income is more efficiently performed by the central government than by the local governments (Musgrave, ...(1973), ... See full document

... and decentralization), there must be asymmetric information: the incumbent must be better-informed about his own competence (or some other characteristic) than the ...about fiscal policy in other regions: ... See full document

... Turnover to the academic settings might also imply the way how the education and public health sector needs to work together. However, the turnover through transfer and release might indicate the presence ... See full document

... the decentralization and boost economic ...reducing fiscal disparities between the Central Government and local governments and among local governments and is aimed at the development of the local economy ... See full document

... the public good out of tax revenue. Specifically, the unit cost of the public good in a region can be high or low, and the probability that the cost is low is higher for a competent (or “good”) incumbent ... See full document