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Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Espanya) | |
Kyriacou, Andreas P.
Muinelo-Gallo, Leonel Roca-Sagalés, Oriol |
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2020 February 15 | |
In this paper we consider how government quality mediates the relationship between fiscal decentralization and regional disparities. Previous work has argued that fiscal decentralization has the potential to reduce income differences across regions but that this potential may not be realized because of governance problems associated with sub-national authorities. Our empirical evidence based on a sample of 24 OECD countries over the period 1984 to 2006 lends a measure of support to this idea. We find that fiscal decentralization promotes regional convergence in high government quality settings but, worryingly, it leads to wider regional disparities in countries with poor governance. Resumen: En este artÃculo consideramos cómo la calidad de la gobernanza interviene en la relación entre la descentralización fiscal y las disparidades regionales. Los estudios anteriores sostienen que la descentralización fiscal tiene el potencial de reducir las diferencias de ingresos entre regiones, pero que este potencial no se logra manifestar debido a problemas de gobernanza asociados con las autoridades subnacionales. Nuestras pruebas empÃricas, con base en una muestra de 24 paÃses de la OCDE durante el perÃodo 1984 a 2006 apoyan en cierta medida esta idea. Hallamos que la descentralización fiscal fomenta la convergencia regional en escenarios con una alta calidad de gobernanza, pero que, de forma preocupante, conduce a disparidades regionales más amplias en paÃses con una pobre gobernanza The authors would like to thank the participants of the Regional Studies AssociationWinter Conference 2012 and three anonymous referees for their kind and helpful comments. We would also like to acknowledge financial support from projects ECO2010-21668-C03-02 and ECO2012-31081 (Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia) as well as 2009SGR-2013 and XREPP (Direcció General de Recerca). The usual disclaimers apply |
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http://hdl.handle.net/2072/372613 | |
eng | |
Regional Science Association International | |
Tots els drets reservats | |
Descentralització administrativa
Decentralization in government Relacions fiscals intergovernamentals Intergovernmental fiscal relations PolÃtica fiscal Fiscal policy |
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Fiscal decentralization and regional disparities: The importance of good governance | |
info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
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