Impact de la décentralisation sur la taille du secteur public: le cas de la France

Quentin Frère () and Benoît Le Maux

Revue d'économie politique, 2010, vol. 120, issue 3, 509-538

Abstract: This article makes an attempt to evaluate the impact of the French fiscal decentralization on total public expenditure level. We estimate the econometric model initiated by Oates [1972] on the 1960-2006 period, taking into account the various factors explaining government size (Wagner?s law, weaker economic growth, etc.). Our estimations results highlight three phenomena : (1) expenditure decentralization is associated with a smaller public sector ; (2) the 80?s transfer of responsibilities attenuated the negative effect of expenditure decentralization ; (3) tax revenue decentralization has a positive impact on government size.

Date: 2010
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