Fiscal Performance, Institutional Design and Decentralization in European Union Countries /

This paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on overall fiscal performance in the European Union, taking into account fiscal institutional arrangements. We find that spending decentralization has been associated with sizably better fiscal performance, especially when transfer dependency of sub...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eyraud, Luc
Other Authors: Escolano, Julio, Moreno Badia, Marialuz, Tuladhar, Anita
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/045
Online Access:Full text available on IMF