Talk:Fiscal federalism

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Dr. Tosun's comment on this article
Dr. Tosun has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"I think this is a useful article. Fiscal federalism is a very popular topic in economics and other social science disciplines. I think there are few missing pieces and it would be good to add more references. I'm copying few below. I believe Oates (1972) has the decentralization theorem. It would also be good to include more on the empirical findings regarding the determinants of fiscal decentralization and the consequences of decentralization from different countries and regions. I'm copying below few other suggested references.

Oates, Wallace E. 1972. Fiscal Federalism. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovic. Oates,Wallace E. 1993. “Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Development,” National Tax Journal, 46, 237–243. Oates, Wallace E. 2008. “On the Evolution of Fiscal Federalism: Theory and Institutions,” National Tax Journal, 61, 313–334.

Akai, Nobuo and Masayo Sakata. 2002. “Fiscal Decentralization Contributed to Economic Growth: Evidence from State-Level Cross-Section Data for the United States,” Journal of Urban Economics, 52, 93–108.

Hammond, George and Mehmet S. Tosun. 2011. “The Impact of Local Decentralization on Economic Growth: Evidence from U.S. Counties,” Journal of Regional Science 51 (1): 47-64.

Lin, Justin Yifu and Zhiqiang Liu. 2000. “Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in China,” Economic Development and Cultural Change, 49, 1–21.

Panizza, Ugo. 1999. “On the Determinants of Fiscal Centralization: Theory and Evidence,” Journal of Public Economics, 74, 97–139.

Stansel, Dean. 2005. “Local decentralization and local economic growth: A cross-sectional examination of US metropolitan areas,” Journal of Urban Economics, 57, 55–72.

Tosun, Mehmet S. and Serdar Yilmaz. 2010. “Centralization, Decentralization and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa,” Middle East Development Journal 2 (1): 1-14.

Xie, Danyang, Heng-fu Zou, and Hamid Davoodi. 1999. “Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in the United States,” Journal of Urban Economics, 45, 228–239."

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 * Reference : Tosun, Mehmet Serkan & Yilmaz, Serdar, 2008. "Centralization, Decentralization, and Conflict in the Middle East and North Africa," Policy Research Working Paper Series 4774, The World Bank.

ExpertIdeasBot (talk) 17:02, 19 May 2016 (UTC)

Dr. Singh's comment on this article
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"This article is incomplete and unbalanced. It does not treat revenue and expenditure assignments, nor transfer mechanisms, in the detail they deserve. On the other hand, there is a long section on vertical imbalances which is dedicated to the specific work of one person that is not necessarily the mainstream view of the topic."

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 * Reference : Singh, Nirvikar, 2008. "Decentralization and Public Delivery of Health Care Services in India," MPRA Paper 7869, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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Dr. Baskaran's comment on this article
Dr. Baskaran has reviewed this Wikipedia page, and provided us with the following comments to improve its quality:

"The article has no factually wrong statements, but I think it is too brief and does not properly define some terminology. For example, it should be spelled out that "horizontal fiscal relations" relate to interactions between sub-national governments while vertical fiscal relations relate to interactions between one or several sub-national governments and the central government.

This distinction is also important because different issues are emphasized by the academic literature, depending on whether horizontal or vertical interactions are studied. The literature on horizontal interaction focuses on issues such as tax and yardstick competition ((Zodrow and Mieszkowski 1986, Salmon 1987)). The literature on vertical interaction focuses on subnational overborrowing and soft budget constraints due to the existence of intergovernmental transfers (Baskaran 2012).

More generally, I think these issues (tax competition, sub-national over-borrowing and bailouts) should be discussed more extensively.


 * References*

Baskaran, T. (2012). Soft budget constraints and strategic interactions in subnational	borrowing: evidence from the German States, 1975-2005. Journal of Urban Economics 71, p. 114-127.

Salmon, P. (1987). Decentralization as an incentive scheme. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 3, p. 24-43.

Zodrow, G. R. and Mieszkowski, P. (1986). Pigou, Tiebout, property taxation and the under-provision of local public goods. Journal of Urban Economics 19, p. 356-370."

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 * Reference 1: Baskaran, Thushyanthan, 2011. "Revenue decentralization and inflation: a re-evaluation," MPRA Paper 36911, University Library of Munich, Germany.


 * Reference 2: Baskaran, Thushyanthan & Lopes da Fonseca, Mariana, 2013. "The economics and empirics of tax competition: A survey," Center for European, Governance and Economic Development Research Discussion Papers 163, University of Goettingen, Department of Economics.

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