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| Title: | | Fiscal decentralization and economic growth in OECD countries : is there a relationship?  |
| Authors: | | Baskaran, Thushyanthan Feld, Lars P. |
| Issue Date: | | 2009 |
| Series/Report no.: | | CESifo working paper 2721 |
| Abstract: | | We study the relationship between fiscal decentralization and economic growth for 23 OECD countries from 1975 to 2001 by using new panel data on sub-federal tax autonomy. While initial estimations suggest that fiscal decentralization causes lower growth rates, we find that this result is not robust to alternative specifications. We also fail to obtain evidence for a negative relationship in a number of additional robustness checks. We thus conclude that fiscal decentralization is unrelated to economic growth. |
| Subjects: | | fiscal federalism sub-national fiscal autonomy tax competition |
| JEL: | | H77 H73 H71 D78 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | CESifo Working Papers, CESifo Group Munich
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