An Essay on Fiscal Federalism

Oates, Wallace E.

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“…Among many different economic ideas about decentralization of public functions to SNGs, and the associated issue of public finances under decentralized systems, seminal contributions were made by Tiebout (1956), Musgrave (1959) and Oates (1972), all of whom laid the strong foundation for significant discussions of fiscal decentralization. Olson (1969), through his concept of fiscal equivalence, also made an important contribution.…”

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“…In broad terms, it positively associates the efficiency goal of public economics with aligning the costs and benefits of impure public good provision with multi-tiered federal systems, each with overlapping physical boundaries, but each with unique boundaries relating to the provision of specific public goods. The next seminal contribution was made by Oates (1972) in his monograph Fiscal Federalism. Oates implicitly blended Olson's notion of fiscal equivalence with aspects of Tiebout's notion of impure public goods in his theory of fiscal decentralization, although without focusing directly on household mobility or sorting.…”

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Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Theory

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2017

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Abstract.There is no complete overview or discussion of the literature of the economics of federalism and fiscal decentralization, even though scholarly interest in the topic has been increasing significantly over recent years. This paper provides a general, brief but comprehensive overview of the main insights from the literature on fiscal federalism and decentralization. In doing so, literature on fiscal federalism and decentralization is grouped into two main approaches: "first generation of theories" and "second generation of theories".

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“…According to the Theory of Fiscal Federalism, the main advantage of decentralization is the tailoring of resources to local preferences (Oates, 1999).…”

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Effects of health care decentralization in Spain from a citizens’ perspective

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The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of the decentralization of the public national health system in Spain on citizens' satisfaction with different dimensions of primary and hospital care. Using micro-data from the Health Barometer 1996-2009 and taking advantage of the exogeneity of the different pace of decentralization across Spain, we find that, in general, decentralization has not improved citizens' satisfaction with different features of the health services. In fact, the only significant -though smalleffects found were of the opposite sign, i.e., a reduction in satisfaction as a result of decentralization, regarding the following aspects of medical care: assistance in the primary care centers, waiting time before consultation, ease of getting appointments, confidence transmitted by doctors and the number of persons per hospital room.

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“…Si, à nouveau, les auteurs proximistes ont faiblement investi ce terrain, ils peuvent assurément s'inspirer de travaux très nombreux, parfois anciens, touchant au principe de subsidiarité, et plus particulièrement connus en économie sous l'intitulé de théorie du fédéralisme fiscal (pour les textes fondateurs, cf. Musgrave, 1959 ;Oates, 1972 ; pour une synthèse récente, cf. par exemple Oates, 1999).…”

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Mots-clés :Proximité géographique ; proximité organisée ; environnement ; conflits ; régulation Résumé -Parmi les nouvelles approches économiques de l'environnement, l'économie de la proximité suscite un intérêt grandissant. Ce n'est que depuis le début des années 2000 que cette conception, jusqu'alors dédiée à l'analyse des relations économiques territoriales, s'est tournée vers la problématique environnementale. À l'aide d'une grille d'analyse novatrice, fondée notamment sur le diptyque « proximité géographique / proximité organisée », elle a investi plusieurs questions du domaine de l'environnement et des politiques environnementales. L'article se propose, en premier lieu, d'établir un inventaire des contributions réalisées à partir de ce cadre analytique. Apparaissent dominer la question des conflits d'usage et le rôle des proximités organisées dans la régulation des problèmes environnementaux. Dans un second temps, l'article dessine des perspectives heuristiques de développements futurs.Keywords: geographical proximity; organised proximity; environment; conflicts; regulation Abstract -The contributions of proximity economics to environmental issues: Assessment and prospects. Among the new economic approaches to environmental issues, proximity economics is generating growing interest. It was only in the early 2000s that this approach, which until then had mostly served as a tool for analyzing territorial economic relationships, was first used to address environmental issues. Using an innovative analytical framework based on the two-fold concept of geographical proximity/organized proximity, recent work in proximity economics have examined several issues related to the environment and environmental policies. In this article we propose to draw an inventory of the contributions based on this analytical framework and to identify a number of heuristic prospects. By crossing the two types of proximity and the two stages of environmental problems (i.e. the production and regulation phases), four themes emerge. Examining the existing contributions with regards to these themes reveals that the majority of these contributions deal with the effect of geographical proximity on the production of a problem (including the question of land use conflicts) and with the role of organized proximity in the management of the problem. The other two themes are discussed far less frequently: the possible contribution of geographical proximity in the management of the problem and the negative role of certain types of organized proximity in the creation of problems. For this reason, we believe that these two under-explored themes are research directions that should be pursued in future, possibly by using work from other fields of research.

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An Essay on Fiscal Federalism

Cited by 2,637 publications

References 57 publications

Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Theory

Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Theory

Effects of health care decentralization in Spain from a citizens’ perspective

Dossier « Économie de la proximité » – Les apports de l'économie de la proximité aux approches environnementales : inventaire et perspectives

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