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1. Opportunities and Risks of Fiscal Decentralization

   A Developing Country Perspective
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Roy Bahl

   Despite the overwhelming support for decentralization programs, there is little agreement among scholars and policy makers, and scant empirical evidence, as to whether the devolution of power to...

2. Local Revenues Under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries

   Linking Policy Reform, Governance, and Capacity
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Paul Smoke

   Paul Smoke examines local revenue generation under fiscal decentralization in developing countries. He finds that local capacity for generating own-source funds is rare due to a lack of attention to...

3. Local Service Provision in Selected OECD Countries

   Do Decentralized Operations Work Better?
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Ehtisham Ahmad, Giorgio Brosio, and Vito Tanzi

   The authors survey the related literature of decentralization experiences in selected OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation...

4. School Finance Reforms and Property Tax Limitation Measures

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Daniel P. McMillen and Larry D. Singell Jr.

   One of the most controversial issues related to U.S. fiscal federalism is the financing of local public schools through property taxation. In theory, the system follows the principle of matching...

5. Decentralization and Environmental Decision Making

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Shelby Gerking

   Shelby Gerking analyzes the effect of state tax rates on the disposal of chlorinated solvent wastes in the United States. He finds that changes in the disposal costs of these chemicals as a result of...

6. Interjurisdictional Competition Under U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Sally Wallace

   Similar to the decentralization of environmental policy, scholars and analysts also express concerns about the welfare effects of interjurisdictional competition on economic development under U.S....

7. Fiscal Decentralization and Income Distribution

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepulveda

   A major challenge of fiscal decentralization is its effects on income distribution. Theoretical discussions have questioned whether decentralization increases regional disparities when subnational...

8. Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Thomas J. Nechyba

   The traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...

9. Community Associations

   Decentralizing Local Government Privately
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Robert H. Nelson

   In this paper, Robert H. Nelson describes an important change in local governance structure under the U.S. federal system. There has been a rapid increase in the number of residence-based, voluntary...

10. Political Structure and Exclusionary Zoning

    Are Small Suburbs the Big Problem?
    Artigos de Conferências
    Maio 2008
    William A. Fischel

    In this paper, William A. Fischel argues that metropolitan areas with more fragmented and decentralized government structures are more likely to have a lower elasticity of housing supply than those...