The purpose of this article is to determine what theoretical and policy conclusions are consistent with the orthodox theory of social and merit wants, the treatment of distribution as a component of efficiency, and a Planning-Programming-Budgeting System when they are placed in a federalist setting with states’ rights and local autonomy. The conclusion is that neither matching nor equalization grants should be used in intergovernmental fiscal relations and that use of traditional intergovernmental fiscal devices will not assure success of a programmed budget
The conversations about fiscal federalism, decentralization and devolution have been evolving in the...
For the last three decades, fiscal decentralization has been a priority of the institutional reform ...
This paper discusses the current state of fiscal relations between the federal, state and local gove...
The purpose of this article is to determine what theoretical and policy conclusions are consistent w...
In designing public policy, a question of first principle is the degree to which government services...
Public spending, its size and composition, has been studied extensively in the public finance litera...
Although interactions between federal and state taxes and spending programs are becoming increasingl...
Theories of fiscal federalism, such as those propounded by Musgrave, Tiebout, and Brennan and Buchan...
First generation fiscal federalism (FGFF) studies the performance of decentralized systems under the...
The structure of each level of government in the United States has changed over the last 200 years. ...
We survey the empirical literature on fiscal decentralization (FD) and analyze the advantages and di...
The most desirable system of allocations should avoid effi ciency losses, resulting from either fi n...
In a Federal system of government, each unit of government decides independently how much of each ty...
This doctoral thesis contains three essays on equalization transfers in a fiscal federalism. In Ch...
The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper id...
The conversations about fiscal federalism, decentralization and devolution have been evolving in the...
For the last three decades, fiscal decentralization has been a priority of the institutional reform ...
This paper discusses the current state of fiscal relations between the federal, state and local gove...
The purpose of this article is to determine what theoretical and policy conclusions are consistent w...
In designing public policy, a question of first principle is the degree to which government services...
Public spending, its size and composition, has been studied extensively in the public finance litera...
Although interactions between federal and state taxes and spending programs are becoming increasingl...
Theories of fiscal federalism, such as those propounded by Musgrave, Tiebout, and Brennan and Buchan...
First generation fiscal federalism (FGFF) studies the performance of decentralized systems under the...
The structure of each level of government in the United States has changed over the last 200 years. ...
We survey the empirical literature on fiscal decentralization (FD) and analyze the advantages and di...
The most desirable system of allocations should avoid effi ciency losses, resulting from either fi n...
In a Federal system of government, each unit of government decides independently how much of each ty...
This doctoral thesis contains three essays on equalization transfers in a fiscal federalism. In Ch...
The appropriate federal structure of government is now a policy issue of major debate. This paper id...
The conversations about fiscal federalism, decentralization and devolution have been evolving in the...
For the last three decades, fiscal decentralization has been a priority of the institutional reform ...
This paper discusses the current state of fiscal relations between the federal, state and local gove...