How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size?

By Jing Jin, HENG-FU ZOU. 2002

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

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Decentralized Taxation and the Size of Government: Evidence from Swiss State and Local Governments (2010, unknown): “To test the decentralization hypothesis, a cross-country analysis needs to be performed (Kirchgässner 2002b). In the spirit of Oates (1972) early study, several authors have expanded their empirical work to the country level, evaluating whether decentralized countries have smaller government sizes t”
New Evidence on the Effect of Fiscal Decentralization on the Size and Composition of Government Spending (2006, methodology): “Consistent with recent studies that take the distinction between different types of decentralization seriously, notably Jin and Zou (2002), Rodden (2003) and Stein (1999), I find an asymmetric impact of tax revenue decentralization and expenditure decentralization on government spending.”
Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency: evidence from OECD countries (2013, methodology): “15 Previous empirical studies based on the GFS measure of fiscal decentralization are Jin and Zou (2002) ,”
Decentralization and Local Governments' Performance: How Does Fiscal Autonomy Affect Spending Efficiency? (2012, unknown): “…local taxation – starting with the seminal paper by Oates (1985) – are mostly focused on how decentralization affect government size , implicitly assuming that a large spending is inefficient (e.g., Jin and Zou, 2002; Rodden, 2003; Fiva, 2006; Borge and Rattsø, 2008; Eyraud and Lusinyan, 2011).”
On the link between fiscal decentralization and public debt in OECD countries (2010, methodology): “In a study with panel data on 32 industrial and developing countries, Jin and Zou (2002) reach more differentiated conclusions by disaggregating the general concept of fiscal decentralization into different “representations”.”
The Impact of Fiscal Decentralization: A Survey (2015, unknown): “On the contrary, just higher expenditure decentralization would seem to lead to larger government size, perhaps for the opposite reasons (Jin and Zou 2002; Moesen and van Cauwenberge, 2000; 10 Tax decentralization combined with low levels of central equalization transfers can lead to enlarged…”
Vertical fiscal imbalances and fiscal performance in advanced economies (2013, background): “Transfer dependency is the most common indicator with transfers measured either as a share of subnational spending (Jin and Zou, 2002), as a share of subnational total revenue (Rodden, 2002; Baskaran, 2010), or even as a share of central government revenue (Bahl and Wallace, 2007).”
Did New Public Management Matter? An empirical analysis of the outsourcing and decentralization effects on public sector size (2015, background): “Although for a single equation, POLS is a consistent estimator of the cointegrating vector, it has a non-negligible bias in finite samples (Kao and Chiang, 2000). To overcome this problem, Phillips and Moon (1999) and Pedroni (2000) proposed the FMOLS estimator, while Kao and Chiang(2000) proposed a”
Fiscal decentralization, macrostability and growth (2005, background): “Jorge Martínez-Vázquez gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Instituto de Estudios Fiscales, Spain.”
Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Disparities: Evidence from Several European Union Countries (2008, background): “Nevertheless, fiscal decentralization is characterized by a downsized central government (Jin and Zou, 2002), which has the effect of drawing political power away from the capital and its surrounding region.”