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Les effets de l'intégration économique et sociale sur la décentralisation fiscale: résultats pour les pays de l'OCDE .
Author(s) -
Stegarescu Dan
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2009.01524.x
Subject(s) - decentralization , economic integration , politics , economics , government (linguistics) , market integration , public good , economic system , panel data , international economics , economic policy , political science , market economy , macroeconomics , linguistics , philosophy , law , microeconomics , econometrics
This paper examines the impact of economic and political integration on the vertical government structure. It argues that, by increasing the market size and the benefits of decentralized provision of public goods, integration triggered the recent process of decentralization in OECD countries. A panel analysis relates the degree of fiscal decentralization to economic and European integration, controlling for interregional heterogeneity, economies of scale, and institutions. The results mostly support a decentralizing effect of economic integration in general and of European integration in particular for heterogeneous EU countries, whereas participation of subnational governments in national decision‐making is associated with more centralization.