This paper highlights the difference between secure investor property rights and loosely defined individual property rights. Globalization and fiscal decentralization have intensified this difference. On the one hand, in the presence of mobile foreign direct investments and under the arrangement of fiscal decentralization, local governments compete vigorously to offer various protections on the...

In a recent compilation of lessons learned about decentralization, Roy Bahl (1999) highlighted three channels through which central interventions often undermine the discipline of a hard budget constraint for local governments. These are “deficit grants” to cover year-end deficits on local government budgets, direct central government coverage of shortfalls on specific items of expenditure, and...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of economic openness on the vertical structure of the public sector within a country. To tackle this issue we set up a simple theoretical model of fiscal federalism, where both central and local public spending enter the objective functions of both a central government and an aggregate local public sector, accommodating a wide range of behaviou...

Using the spatial Durbin model, this study investigates, systematically, link between green taxes and carbon emissions influence of taxation on under fiscal decentralization in context shift performance evaluation local government. The results demonstrate a positive correlation at different stages appraisal. Fiscal expenditure has dual effects environmental assessments. It additionally strength...

E-Government as a virtual enterprise, having many vertical portals, works in collaborative network to deliver e-services. The decentralization in egovernance depends on how much a governance structure decentralizes its political, fiscal and administrative powers. E-governance devolution areas may be planning, business process re-engineering, change management, enterprise architecture, networks,...

In this study we explore in detail the causes of corruption in China using two different sets of data at the regional level (provinces and cities). We observe that regions with more anti-corruption efforts, histories of British rule, higher openness, more access to media and relatively higher wages of government employees are markedly less corrupt; while social heterogeneity, regulation, abunda...