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Subnational Bailouts in Germany [PDF]
This paper presents an investigation of subnational government bailouts in Germany. In the first part we briefly describe the system of fiscal federalism in Germany. The main part of the paper examines the bailout of two West German states.
Helmut Seitz
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Institutional Diversity in Banking and Economic Complexity
International Journal of Finance &Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we test whether institutional diversity in banking systems is beneficial to economic complexity, using data for Italian provinces in the period 1998–2017. We compute different indexes that consider diversity from an ownership, institutional, business model and competition point of view and find that higher diversity has a ...
Beniamino Pisicoli
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Climate Change Governance at Subnational Level : Key Lessons for Kenya's County Governments [PDF]
, 2015 With the international community struggling to reach an agreement to maintain GHG concentration to safe levels, focus is now shifting to climate governance beyond the international and national level.
Omuko, Lydia
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How Should Subnational Government Borrowing Be Regulated?Some Cross-Country Empirical Evidence [PDF]
Countries have adopted various institutional responses to subnational government borrowing. Using a sample of 43 countries over the period 1982-2000, this paper provides a panel data analysis to determine the most effective borrowing constraints for ...
Alexander Plekhanov, Raju Singh
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Governments’ Home Bias and Efficiency Losses: Evidence from National and Subnational Governments
These files represent the replication package for the paper "Governments’ Home Bias and Efficiency Losses: Evidence from National and Subnational Governments", by Manuel García-Santana and Marta Santamaría, published by the Journal of International ...
Garcia-Santana, Manuel
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Fiscal Rules for Subnational Governments: Can They Promote Fiscal Discipline?
, 2007 Experience indicates that fiscal rules can be helpful as a disciplinary device at the central government level. This article explores whether fiscal rules could be usefully adopted in a decentralised framework, where the behaviour of subnational ...
Teresa Ter-Minassian
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Where Projects Fail: Geospatial Evidence of Delays and Cancellations in Chinese Development Finance
Journal of International Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Delays and cancellations can severely undermine the effectiveness of development finance. Yet, little systematic evidence exists on where and why these disruptions occur within the rapidly expanding portfolio of Chinese‐financed development projects in Africa.
Leoni Mendler‐Krakau
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Poland: Europeanization of Subnational Governments
, 2011 The traditions of Polish democracy date back to the First Republic. However, eventually Poland suffered collapse due to the relative weakness of the Polish central authorities.
Paweł Swianiewicz
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Public Administration and Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The third sector has emerged as an increasingly important actor in governance, social development, and public service delivery across the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), yet scholarly understanding of its evolution, institutional capacity, and policy role remains fragmented and uneven.
Moosa Elayah +2 more
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Integrating land financing into subnational fiscal management [PDF]
Land assets have become an important source of financing capital investments by subnational governments in developing countries. Land assets, often with billions of dollars per transaction, rival and sometimes surpass subnational borrowing or fiscal ...
Peterson, George E., Kaganova, Olga
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