Fiscal autonomy and quality of governance in OECD countries

David Bartolini () and Raffaella Santolini

Economics Bulletin, 2013, vol. 33, issue 1, 706-713

Abstract: Using a panel of 24 OECD countries, we study the link between the autonomy of sub-national governments and the quality of governance of a country. The results show that fiscal autonomy worsens citizens' perceptions of governance quality. In particular, the delegation of policy responsibilities to the regional level produces a robust negative effect on quality.

Keywords: Fiscal autonomy; Quality of governance; Fixed-effects vector decomposition estimator; Panel data analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D7 H1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-03-12
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