Destined to be defaulted: Local government insolvency and bailout in post-transition Hungary

Izabella Barati-Stec ()
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Izabella Barati-Stec: Central European University, Hungary & Budapest Business School, Hungary

Journal of Economic and Financial Studies (JEFS), 2014, vol. 2, issue 6, 1-15

Abstract: This paper reviews the waves of democratization and the development of the public administration and public finances in Hungary, with special attention municipalities caused by the changes in sub-national finance regulation since 2010. During the transition yeas, Hungary was very forward looking and the first among CEE countries to end central planning and to introduce market rules into the economy. Everybody expected the decentralization to be a success story. 25 years later, Hungary not only failed to meet the expectations, but also undergone though a situation in 2008 to start a massive recentralization process. This paper puts fiscal decentralization in Hungary in a historical context while critically investigating the findings of recent literatures on decentralization process in Hungary. The critical investigation of past experiences and reform steps of the current government suggest possible reform measures to solve the financial problems of Hungarian municipalities.

Keywords: Local public finance; Local insolvency; Municipal bail-out; Sub-national debt. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H12 H71 H74 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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