Empirical Research on Determinants of Decentralization: A Literature Survey

A. Libman
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A. Libman: Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and Institute of Economics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Frankfurt/Main, Germany and Moscow, Russia

Journal of the New Economic Association, 2010, issue 6, 10-29

Abstract: Empirical research on decentralization plays a crucial role in the modern public economics. This paper surveys the literature, discussing the emergence of positive studies of decentralization as an endogenous parameter, which hence attempt to find out the main factors determining the degree of decentralization in individual countries.

Keywords: Decentralization; federalism; empirical research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H71 H72 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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