Motivated by the recent experience in the Russian Federation, this paper examines the implications of imposing central control on the budgetary activities of a subnational government. In a highly stylised multi-task principal-agent model (Holmstrom and Milgrom (1991)), a central government cannot directly monitor the informal budgetary operations of a regional administration, but seeks to improve fiscal policies by exerting control over a “formal” regional budget and imposing (limited) costs on informal behaviour. In the static case of the model, the control of subnational budgetary operations by a benevolent central government may increase social welfare, but at the expense of higher (implicit and explicit) taxation of economic organisatio...
How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically com...
This paper explores the implications from Russian federalism of the "new" interregional economic ine...
The ambition of this paper is to contribute to the growing literature of understanding potentials an...
This paper is an examination of the critical role the assignment of expenditure responsibilities mus...
Despite a number of reforms, the current multi-level budgetary system does not fully correspond to t...
Abstract. This paper is an examination of the critical role the assignment of expenditure responsibi...
Intergovernmental fiscal relations may be the most contentious issue in the Russian Federation today...
The paper deals with the issues related to establishment of intergovernmental fiscal relations in ...
The article summarizes the author's many years of research on the problems of fiscal federalism in e...
'In theory fiscal decentralisation is seen as a way to overcome informational constraints and opport...
This article presents a comparative study of two regions of Russia. The focus is on regional budgets...
For the whole social development of Russia as a democratic federal state, federal relations are basi...
For the whole social development of Russia as a democratic federal state, federal relations are basi...
The state regulation conducted in accordance with the current economic policy plays a leading role i...
Sound regional policies are essential for balanced and sustained economic growth. The interaction of...
How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically com...
This paper explores the implications from Russian federalism of the "new" interregional economic ine...
The ambition of this paper is to contribute to the growing literature of understanding potentials an...
This paper is an examination of the critical role the assignment of expenditure responsibilities mus...
Despite a number of reforms, the current multi-level budgetary system does not fully correspond to t...
Abstract. This paper is an examination of the critical role the assignment of expenditure responsibi...
Intergovernmental fiscal relations may be the most contentious issue in the Russian Federation today...
The paper deals with the issues related to establishment of intergovernmental fiscal relations in ...
The article summarizes the author's many years of research on the problems of fiscal federalism in e...
'In theory fiscal decentralisation is seen as a way to overcome informational constraints and opport...
This article presents a comparative study of two regions of Russia. The focus is on regional budgets...
For the whole social development of Russia as a democratic federal state, federal relations are basi...
For the whole social development of Russia as a democratic federal state, federal relations are basi...
The state regulation conducted in accordance with the current economic policy plays a leading role i...
Sound regional policies are essential for balanced and sustained economic growth. The interaction of...
How do Russian leaders balance the need to decentralize governance in a socially and politically com...
This paper explores the implications from Russian federalism of the "new" interregional economic ine...
The ambition of this paper is to contribute to the growing literature of understanding potentials an...