Centralization and government competition

Institutional competition versus centralization : Quo vadis Europe ?

Fiscal Centralization of Indiana State and Local Government

Technical Memorandum Number 819 Centralization vs. Competition in Subcontracting Operations

Consider a set of manufacturers all of which can outsource part of their workload to a third-party in first-come-first-serve order, each with the objective of completing his workload the soonest possible. The resulting manufacturer strategies are not optimal for the system and especially, they do not necessarily result to maximum utilization of the third-party capacity. For this reason, the thi...

Centralization and decentralization: Theories and Models

The questions of centralization and decentralization arise in every polity. The constitution or the practice or both have to settle how much of policy making is to be decided by the central government and by component bodies. By and large liberalism and decentralization tend to go together while authoritarianism tends to be associated with centralization. The constitutional model which is gener...

Do Government Preferences Matter for Tax Competition?

This paper explores how government preferences affect the choices of capital tax rates in the presence of tax competition. We develop a model in which governments, differentiating in their preferences for economic development and regional equality, compete for mobile capital over corporation taxes. The key prediction of the model, borne out in data from OECD countries over the years 1990-2007, ...