Title: Fiscal decentralization and deficits : international evidence

Authors: Neyapti, Bilin

Place: [Ankara

Publisher: Bilkent university

Year: 2008]

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Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: decentralization in government, fiscal policy, local government, public debt

Abstract: This paper shows that both expenditure and revenue decentralization have significant negative relationships with deficits. Also, it appears more prudent to advise revenue decentralization rather than expenditure decentralization in cases of high ethnolinguistic fractionalization.

URL: http://www.bilkent.edu.tr/~economics/papers/08-02%20DP_BilinNeyapti.pdf

Document type: Portal