Fiscal stability during the Great Recession: putting decentralization design to the test

This paper provides an empirical analysis aimed at disentangling the roles played by decentralization level and design as well as the extended decentralized framework provided by subnational borrowing rules and fiscal responsibility laws on a country's fiscal stability. Using Organisation for E...

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Published in:Regional studies 2020-07, Vol.54 (7), p.919-930
Main Authors: Lago-Peñas, Santiago, Martinez-Vazquez, Jorge, Sacchi, Agnese
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Decentralization
Design
Economic development
Economic stabilization
Empirical analysis
Financial management
fiscal stability
Great Recession
Imbalance
political decentralization
public deficit
Recessions
Stability
subnational governments
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Design
Economic development
Economic stabilization
Empirical analysis
Financial management
fiscal stability
Great Recession
Imbalance
political decentralization
public deficit
Recessions
Stability
subnational governments
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