Fiscal decentralization and economic growth reconsidered

By John Thornton. 2007

301 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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In Accounting

1. Ben Lockwood
2. Li-Jun Han
3. I. Sanz
4. James Kai Sing Kung
5. N. Gemmell
6. Marko Koethenbuerger
7. R. Kneller
8. Robin Boadway

In Economics and Econometrics

1. I. Sanz
2. R. Kneller
3. N. Gemmell
4. James Kai Sing Kung
5. Ben Lockwood
6. Li-Jun Han
7. Marko Koethenbuerger
8. Niklas Potrafke

In Political Science and International Relations

1. James Kai Sing Kung
2. Ben Lockwood
3. Li-Jun Han
4. I. Sanz
5. N. Gemmell
6. Marko Koethenbuerger
7. R. Kneller
8. Niklas Potrafke

Citations in the corpus

• Fiscal incentives and policy choices of local governments: Evidence from China (2015, background): “The economics literature has shown an increasing interest in fiscal decentralization as an engine of economic growth in both developing and developed countries (e.g., Akai and Sakata, 2002; Iimi, 2005; Martinez-Vazquez andMcNab, 2003; Thornton, 2007).”
• Does Tax Competition Really Promote Growth? (2010, background): “More recently, two studies on US data have found more robust evidence that scal decentralization increases growth (Akai and Sakata (2002), Stansel (2005)).”
• Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in OECD Countries (2013, unknown): “This paper is motivated by the recent results of Thornton (2007) who, by applying a measure of fiscal decentralization which captures the “true” amount of sub-federal autonomy, finds that there is no significant relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth.”
• The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey (2015, unknown): “In turn, Thornton (2007) does not show any impact on economic growth when decentralization is measured by tax revenues over which sub-national governments have full control, but Baskaran and Feld (2013) have recently analyzed similar data and reported that those results were not robust.”
• FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: SPENDING VERSUS REVENUE DECENTRALIZATION (2013, methodology): “Thornton (2007) argues that much of the literature has not distinguished appropriately between administrative and substantive FD. Adam, Delis, and Kammas (2008) find that public sector efficiency is increasing with FD, whereas fiscal dependency of local government on intergovernmental transfers…”