“Glocalization” and decentralization: The role of local governments in the new international context

Alberto Porto and Natalia Porto y Darío Tortarolo
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Dario Tortarolo and Natalia Porto

MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany

Abstract: Globalization, technological changes and the information revolution are phenomena that affect the ways in which different levels of government allocate their public resources and expenditures. This paper examines one aspect of the problem: the decentralization of the subnational public sector and its relation to economic integration. The study focuses on Argentina and Brazil with a panel data for each country separately, for the period 1985-2005. The results show no relationship between the vertical structure of the subnational public sector and economic openness. There may be two explanations for this: factors working in opposite directions compensate their effects; or interferences from higher levels of government prevent modifications. The control variables have the signs suggested by the theory of fiscal federalism.

Keywords: globalization; information revolution; glocalization; local governments (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 H77 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (4)

Published in Urban Public Economics Review 20 (2014): pp. 62-93

Downloads: (external link)
https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/63743/1/MPRA_paper_63743.pdf original version (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pra:mprapa:63743

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in MPRA Paper from University Library of Munich, Germany Ludwigstraße 33, D-80539 Munich, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Joachim Winter (winter@lmu.de).