@techreport{Stegarescu2005Centralizing,
abstract = {This paper investigates the long-term trend and the underlying determinants of public
sector centralization in Germany from 1871 until today. The institutional and the quantitative
review of the German history provides no conclusive evidence for a continuous
process of government centralization as suggested by Popitz' "law", but rather for some
distinct developments caused by the effects of wars and regime changes. Accordingly,
whereas the role of the central government increased continuously at the expense of the
state governments untilWorldWar II, after 1950 the state level regained importance. An
empirical analysis for the period 1950 to 2001 reveals a signidicant decentralizing effect
of per capita income growth, but provides no clear evidence for a causal relationship
between economic and European integration and fiscal decentralization in the case of
Germany.},
address = {Mannheim},
author = {Dan Stegarescu},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {H77; H72; F15; 330; Public Sector Centralization; Popitz' Law; Determinants of Centralization; Germany; \"{O}ffentlicher Sektor; Dezentralisierung; Zentralstaat; Finanzpolitische Aufgabenverteilung; Deutschland; Deutschland <bis 1945>},
language = {eng},
number = {05-46},
publisher = {Zentrum f\"{u}r Europ\"{a}ische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)},
title = {Centralizing Tendencies in the Public Sector in Germany},
type = {ZEW Discussion Papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24138},
year = {2005}
}
