Does decentralization reduce government size? a quantitative study of the decentralization hypothesis

Public Finance Review

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 639-664

  Prohl, Silika ^a   Schneider, Friedrich ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fiscal federalism; Panel data analysis; Size of government

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350504172     PISSN: 10911421     EISSN: 15527530     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1091142109345264     Document Type: Article

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