The Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth Nexus Revisited

This paper addresses two challenges that the fiscal decentralisation and economic growth nexus faces – namely, endogeneity problems and inaccurate measurement of fiscal decentralisation. We introduce novel instrumental variables based on common legal system origin, common federal system, geographica...

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Published in:Fiscal studies 2017-03, Vol.38 (1), p.141-171
Main Authors: Ligthart, Jenny E., van Oudheusden, Peter
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instrumental variables
Legal system
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