Does Fiscal Decentralization Result in a Better Business Climate?

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Russell S. Sobel

The Citadel - School of Business

Nabamita Dutta

University of Wisconsin, La Crosse

Sanjukta Roy

World Bank

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Date Written: 2012

Abstract

Previous literature generally finds that greater fiscal decentralization is associated with faster economic growth, improved government performance, and stronger constraints on the Leviathan behavior of governments. Because economic growth critically depends on the presence of good government policies and institutions, the likely but untested link between these strands of literature is that greater decentralization probably improves growth because it results in government policies more conducive to entrepreneurship and business success. We test (and confirm) this hypothesis using several business climate measures for the U.S. states.

Keywords: Decentralization, Fiscal Federalism, Business Climate, Growth

JEL Classification: H2, H7, O1

Suggested Citation

Sobel, Russell S. and Dutta, Nabamita and Roy, Sanjukta, Does Fiscal Decentralization Result in a Better Business Climate? (2012). Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2206595

Russell S. Sobel

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Sanjukta Roy

World Bank ( email )

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