Handbook of Fiscal Federalism

Edited by Ehtisham Ahmad and Giorgio Brosio

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of ‘fiscal federalism’, providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors include leading lights in the field, many of whom have themselves made seminal contributions to the literature.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H0 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
ISBN: 9781845420086
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 The Political Economy of Decentralization

Ben Lockwood

Ch 2 Horizontal Competition Among Governments

Pierre Salmon

Ch 3 Modelling Vertical Competition

Albert Breton

Ch 4 Spatial Interactions Among Governments

Federico Revelli

Ch 5 Asymmetric Federalism and the Political Economy of Decentralization

Roger Congleton

Ch 6 Functional, Overlapping and Competing Jurisdictions (FOCJ): A Complement and Alternative to Today's Federalism

Reiner Eichenberger and Bruno Frey

Ch 7 Contract Federalism

Paul Spahn

Ch 8 Decentralization and Development

Pranab Bardhan

Ch 9 Fiscal Federalism in Planned Economies

Govinda Rao

Ch 10 Decentralization and Service Delivery

Junaid Ahmad, Shantayanan Devarajan, Stuti Khemani and Shekhar Shah

Ch 11 The Assignment of Functions to Decentralized Government: From Theory to Practice

Bernard Dafflon

Ch 12 Normative Versus Positive Theories of Revenue Assignments in Federations

Maria Flavia Ambrosiano and Massimo Bordignon

Ch 13 Tax Competition in a Federal Setting

John D. Wilson

Ch 14 Intergovernmental Redistributive Transfers: Efficiency and Equity

Robin Boadway

Ch 15 On the Implementation of Transfers to Subnational Governments

Ehtisham Ahmad and Bob Searle

Ch 16 Subnational Public Financial Management: Institutions and Macroeconomic Considerations

Ehtisham Ahmad, Maria Albino-War and Raju Singh

Ch 17 The Assignment of Revenue from Natural Resources

Giorgio Brosio

Ch 18 Decentralization and the Environment

Silvana Dalmazzone

Ch 19 Corruption and Decentralized Public Governance

Anwar Shah

Ch 20 Fiscal Federalism and National Unity

Richard Bird and Robert D. Ebel

Ch 21 Institutions of Federalism and Decentralized Government

Brian Galligan

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