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Fiscal Performance, Institutional Design and Decentralization in European Union Countries

By Luc Eyraud, Anita Tuladhar, Julio Escolano, Marialuz Moreno Badia, Juliane Sarnes

February 1, 2012

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Luc Eyraud, Anita Tuladhar, Julio Escolano, Marialuz Moreno Badia, and Juliane Sarnes. Fiscal Performance, Institutional Design and Decentralization in European Union Countries, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2012) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

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 subnational governments is low. However, subnational fiscal rules do not seem to be associated with better performance.

Subject: Expenditure, Fiscal federalism, Fiscal policy, Fiscal rules, Fiscal stance, General government spending, Public financial management (PFM)

Keywords: Access to borrowing, Authorities' access, Central government, Country, Eastern Europe, Europe, European Union, Expenditure share, Fiscal decentralization, Fiscal federalism, Fiscal institutions, Fiscal rules, Fiscal stance, General government spending, Government, Government tier, Lagged government debt, National government, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    32

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2012/045

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2012045

  • ISBN:

    9781463936464

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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