Titel:The Economic Effects of Federalism and Decentralization – A Cross-Country Assessment
Autor:Voigt, Stefan
Weitere Verfasser:Blume, Lorenz
Veröffentlicht:2009
URI:https://archiv.ub.uni-marburg.de/es/2023/0219
URN: urn:nbn:de:hebis:04-es2023-02196
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17192/es2023.0219
ISSN: 1867-3678
DDC:330 Wirtschaft
Publikationsdatum:2023-12-21
Lizenz:https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0

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Schlagwörter:
Economic Effects of constitutions, Federalism, constitutional economics., decentralization, Fiscal federalism

Summary:
This paper is based on the conjecture that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by drawing on a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and decentralization are used as variables for explaining differences in (1) fiscal policy, (2) government effectiveness, (3) economic productivity, and (4) happiness. The results show that institutional details do, indeed, matter. Different aspects of federalism impact on the outcome variables in different degrees. This study adds to our knowledge on the transmission mechanisms of federalism and decentralization.


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