Over the last few decades, an integral part of public finance development is budget (fiscal) transparency and accountability. It is also in the focus of scientific interest and international organizations’ activity. Nevertheless, there is still a lack of valuable empirical research on identifying key triggers and inhibitors of budget (fiscal) transparency and its cohesion with other concepts in public finance management. Thus, this research deals with the realization of several tasks: 1) identification of budget (fiscal) transparency genesis and its essence in modern terms; 2) clarification of its cohesion with other concepts in public finance management using modern tools of bibliometric analysis; 3) characteristics of a current state of budget transparency in Ukraine, identification problems and prospects in this sphere. The second task fulfillment is based on Google Ngram Viewer, Google Trends, and VOSviewer bibliometric tools. Implementation of Google Ngram Viewer is aimed at popularity quantification of the concepts “budget transparency”, “fiscal transparency” and “budget accountability” in English Google books for 1960-2012. It defines budget (fiscal) transparency and accountability became the focus of scientific interest starting from 1960th, demonstrating an increase from the 1990th, and peaked in 2005. Google Trends analysis also showed that the peak of Internet users’ interest in budget (fiscal) transparency issues was in 2005-2006. Moreover, Google Trends analysis and frequency of Scopus articles published on the budget (fiscal) transparency issues lead to the conclusion that this concept remains popular among both scientists and regular Internet users worldwide. VOSviewer analysis of 419 Scopus articles reveals that budget (fiscal) transparency closely connected with economic prosperity and sustainability at national and local levels, poverty elimination, environmental responsibility, democratic values implementation, fight against corruption, good governance, and especially the efficiency of public finance management, fiscal policy, and government expenditures. Finally, analysis of budget transparency level in Ukraine based on Open Budget Survey 2019 allows concluding that despite the general improvement of the country score (from 54 to 63 points) in comparison with the previous Survey period, Ukraine still has problems with Mid-Year Review and Pre-Budget Statement. Keywords: Bibliometric Analysis, Budget Accountability, Budget Transparency, Google Ngram, Google Trends, Fiscal Transparency, VOSviewer.

Over the last three decades, fiscal decentralization reform has become widespread in the world as one of the most effective tools for ensuring the efficient functioning of the public and local finances, as it involves the transfer of powers from central to local or regional levels of government under the principle of subsidiarity and more effective allocation of budgetary funds. However, despite the fact that the reform of fiscal decentralization is mainly aimed at a qualitative transformation of the functioning of the budgetary system, it is crucial to take into account the consequences and interrelations of this process with other components of economic policy and their target parameters when developing the concept and algorithm for its implementation. Thus, in particular, many empirical studies confirm the impact of fiscal federalism on country economic growth. However, it is also essential to identify the impact of reform on the parameters of the country investment attractiveness. In the article, empirical studies on the impact of decentralization on the country’s and region’s investment attractiveness indicators were analyzed. The analysis results revealed that this issue has not become widespread in the scientific literature, and the existing research does not allow a clear conclusion about the nature of the impact of decentralization on the parameters of investment activity. The paper provides panel data regression analysis in order to identify the impact of revenue and (cost) expenditure decentralization on net inflow of foreign direct investment, gross capital formation and business network density for a sample of 12 unitary European countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Ukraine) for 2008-2018. According to the modeling results, it was found that the level of expenditure decentralization has a positive effect on the net inflow of foreign direct investment and business network density, negative – on the volume of gross capital formation. In contrast, revenue decentralization has no statistically significant effect on any of the performance parameters. Keywords: expenditure (cost) decentralization, revenue decentralization, investment attractiveness, investment activity, regression analysis.

This paper summarizes the arguments and counterarguments within the scientific discussion on the influence of fiscal decentralization measures on the management of innovative country development. The main purpose of the research is to test the hypothesis that expenditure and revenue decentralizations have a positive impact on the management of innovative country development. Testing the hypothesis considers realization of panel data regression analysis, and consists of several stages, such as: 1) elimination of control variables multicollinearity based on the correlation analysis; 2) identification of the regression model specification (fixed or random effects model) with the help of Hausman test; 3) realization of the regression analysis and characteristic of its results (confirmation or rejection of the hypothesis). It also should be noted that country sample consists of 12 unitary European countries (Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, and Ukraine). Time horizon – 2008-2018. Global Innovation Index is a measure of innovative country development. At the same time, the ratio of local budget revenue to consolidated budget revenue, the rate of domestic budget expenditure to consolidated budget expenditure, the proportion of local budget tax revenue to gross local budget revenue are measures of fiscal decentralization in the research. There are also selected a set of control variables that often used in economic growth models and reflect macroeconomic perspectives of country development. However, the practical realization of the stages, as mentioned above, allow identifying that fixed effect specification of the model is more appropriate in all three cases (for three different measures of fiscal decentralization). Panel data regression analysis allows confirming the hypothesis on the positive impact of revenue fiscal decentralization and the negative impact of expenditure decentralization on innovative country development. In turn, there is no statistically significant cohesion between ratio of local budget tax revenue to gross local budget revenue and Global Innovation Index. These findings in terms of fiscal decentralization reform might be considered in order to ensure a balance between power (expenditures) redistribution from central to sub-central governments and local budget financial capacity. While in terms of innovative country development, it should be considered that the lack of local budget financial resources to cover all redistributed from central government level powers makes it impossible to invest in the development of innovation. However, the increase of local government financial capacity creates opportunities not just for essential functions financing but also advanced features investment such as innovative development. Keywords fiscal decentralization, innovation development, local budget expenditures, local budget revenue, local community.

Reform of fiscal decentralization is one of the most effective modern tools to improve the efficiency of public and local finances, as it involves the transfer of some powers from central to sub-central governments according to the principle of subsidiarity. Therefore, one of the top priorities in public finance development nowadays is to ensure municipal financial resilience (financial capacity). In the paper it is proposed to measure municipal financial resilience (financial capacity) as an integral indicator of fifth parameters (ratio of revenue / cost / tax revenue of local budgets (excluding transfers) to revenue / cost / tax revenue of the consolidated budget, "1" reduced by the ratio of net intergovernmental transfers to own revenue of local budgets; ratio of own revenue of local budgets to their own expenditure) aggregated based on Fishburn formula. It is proposed to chose as a proxies of municipal sustainable economic development such indicators as consumer price index, current account balance, volume of credits to the private sector, net foreign direct investment, GDP growth, GDP per capita, gross capital formation, business density, employment ratio, R&D expenditures, trade turnover. Testing the hypothesis on relationship between municipal financial resilience (financial capacity) and its economic development is realized on data for Ukraine for the period 2008-2021. Method of modellingregression analysis in Stata software. Based on the empirical research results it might be concluded that there are national peculiarities of relationship between municipal financial resilience (financial capacity) and its sustainable economic development in Ukraine, which might be considered in terms of fiscal decentralization reform implementation, counteraction to negative consequence of coronavirus disease pandemic and municipality post-pandemic recovery strategy.

Актуальність теми дослідження. Протягом останніх трьох десятиліть реформа фінансової децентралізації набула активного поширення у країнах світу як один найбільш дієвих інструментів забезпечення ефективного функціонування системи державних та місцевих фінансів, адже передбачає трансфер частини повноважень з центрального до локального чи регіонального рівня влади, що відповідає принципу субсидіарності, а також більш ефективну алокацію бюджетних коштів. Постановка проблеми. Враховуючи неоднозначність поглядів науковців та практиків стосовно практичних наслідків реформи фінансової децентралізації на загальний економічний розвиток держави, виникає об’єктивна необхідність більш глибоких наукових пошуків у даному напрямку. Аналіз останніх досліджень і публікацій. Дослідженню впливу фінансової децентралізації на економічне зростання присвячено праці таких закордонних дослідників як Родрігез-Поуз, Крьойер, Ґемель, Кнелер, Санз, Баскаран, Фельд та ін., а також таких вітчизняних науковців як Васильєва, Гаруст, Винниченко, Височина, Воронцова, Чигрин, Петрушенко та ін. Емпіричні дослідження не дозволяють сформувати уніфікованого уявлення щодо визначеної проблематики. Постановка завдання. Метою дослідження є визначення впливу різних форм децентралізації на параметри економічного розвитку держави. Викладення основного матеріалу. За результатами регресійного аналізу на панельних даних для 12 унітарних європейських країн (Чехія, Данія, Естонія, Франція, Угорщина, Італія, Латвія, Литва, Польща, Словацька Республіка, Словенія та Україна) за 2008-2018 рр. було емпірично підтверджено позитивний вплив зростання рівня децентралізації витрат та посилення фіскальної автономії на ВВП на душу населення, тоді як виявлення взаємозв’язку між рівнем децентралізації доходів та економічним зростанням в країні не дозволило встановити наявність статистично значимого зв’язку між змінними. Висновки. Отже, отримані результати дозволяють пріоритезувати алгоритм імплементації форм фінансової децентралізації з урахуванням їх результативності у контексті забезпечення економічного розвитку країни: на початкових етапах запровадження реформи доцільно сфокусуватися на посиленні рівня фіскальної автономії органів місцевого самоврядування, а далі переходити до збалансованого процесу децентралізації витрат та доходів.