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No. 08 | 26 Sept 2018 |
The spending power of sub-central governments
This pilot study presents indicators that assess sub-central government (SCG) spending power by policy area. Traditional indicators – such as the share of SCG in total government spending – are often misleading as they underestimate the impact of... |
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No. 01 | 26 Sept 2018 |
Fiscal rules for sub-central governments
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently.... |
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No. 06 | 26 Sept 2018 |
Market mechanisms in public service provision
This paper compares and analyses the use of market mechanisms in core sub-central policy areas, namely education, health care, transport, social protection, and environment. Arrangements like tendering, outsourcing, user choice and competition, user... |
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No. 24 | 27 Sept 2018 |
Assigning responsibilities across levels of government
The past decades have seen an undeniable trend towards decentralisation and greater diversity of multilevel governance arrangements around the world. Decentralisation outcomes depend on the way decentralisation is designed and implemented. A key... |
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No. 27 | 26 Mar 2019 |
The impact of decentralisation on the performance of health care systems
This paper examines the relationship between the degree of administrative decentralisation across levels of government in health care decision-making and health care spending, life expectancy as well as hospital costs. This empirical analysis builds... |
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No. 25 | 26 Mar 2019 |
The spending power of sub-national decision makers across five policy sectors
The paper develops new measures of spending power and performance across five key sectors of sub-national government service delivery –- education, long-term care, transport services, social housing and health care. The new indicators reveal unique... |
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No. 26 | 26 Mar 2019 |
Cross-country evidence on the impact of decentralisation and school autonomy on educational performance
How do administrative and fiscal decentralisation relate to education system performance? The question is answered by exploiting a panel with several different measures of fiscal decentralisation: a measure of administrative decentralisation, as well... |
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No. 28 | 18 Apr 2019 |
Decentralisation and performance measurement systems in health care
Based on an OECD survey, this paper presents quantitative and qualitative data on the decentralisation of health systems, focusing on how they vary according to different institutional characteristics and what types of performance measurement systems... |
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No. 30 | 04 Dec 2019 |
Population ageing and sub-central governments
The population in OECD countries is ageing rapidly, which will have significant macroeconomic impacts, including on public expenditure and tax revenues. This paper analyses the consequences of population ageing at the sub-central government (SCG)... |
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No. 29 | 04 Dec 2019 |
Twenty years of tax autonomy across levels of government
The Network on Fiscal Relations has been assessing the degree of sub-central government tax autonomy in OECD countries for almost two decades. This paper provides an in-depth description of the methodology used to characterise tax autonomy. After... |
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No. 31 | 20 Apr 2020 |
Digitalisation challenges and opportunities for subnational governments
The world economy and societies are going through a digital transformation that goes well beyond computerisation and use of information and telecommunications technologies. This transformation is creating opportunities and challenges for all levels... |
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No. 32 | 25 May 2020 |
Decentralisation and inter-governmental relations in the housing sector
Based on a survey, this paper presents new data on the decentralisation of the housing system and co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government, focusing on the provision of social housing. Decision-making in social housing tends to be more... |
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No. 33 | 01 Feb 2021 |
Federalism and public health decentralisation in the time of COVID-19
The Coronavirus pandemic has put extreme pressure on public health services, often delivered at the local and regional levels of government. The paper focuses on how countries made changes to the configuration of federalism during the first wave of... |
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No. 34 | 25 Mar 2021 |
Funding and financing of local government public investment
The bulk of government investment is done at the local level in OECD countries, representing on average 41% of total public investment. Most studies on subnational government debt focus on the regional or state level, and very few studies analyse... |
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No. 35 | 25 Mar 2021 |
Fiscal rules for subnational governments
This paper describes and analyses the fiscal rules for subnational governments (SNGs) in OECD countries immediately prior to the COVID-19 crisis. It is based on information from the 2019 survey of fiscal rules for SNGs by the OECD Network on Fiscal... |
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No. 36 | 06 Apr 2021 |
Evaluating fiscal equalisation
Fiscal equalisation refers to the transfer of financial resources to and between subnational governments with the aim of mitigating regional differences in fiscal capacity and expenditure needs. However, the determination of fiscal capacity and... |
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No. 37 | 30 Jun 2022 |
Improving subnational governments’ resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on lives, the economy, and the public finances worldwide, drawing attention to the need to enhance resilience to future shocks. This paper focuses on subnational governments, given their important and... |
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No. 38 | 30 Jun 2022 |
Ageing and the long-run fiscal sustainability of health care across levels of government
OECD economies are undergoing a seemingly inevitable process of population ageing that has been changing income and consumption patterns. Notably, the demand for health services is expected to increase, while labour forces are projected to shrink.... |
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No. 39 | 30 Aug 2022 |
Funding the future
Government revenues may be affected by economic growth and changes in demographics over time. The effect of economic growth can be captured by long-run buoyancy – responsiveness of government revenues to GDP growth – while the demographic effect can... |
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No. 40 | 30 Sept 2022 |
Could insurance provide an alternative to fiscal support in crisis response?
The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant economic disruptions and revenue losses for business impacted by workplace closure measures aimed at restraining the spread of the virus. Governments provided extensive monetary and fiscal support to address... |
OECD Working Papers on Fiscal Federalism
This series covers issues related to intergovernmental fiscal relations and local/regional public finance, such as: tax and spending assignment across government levels; intergovernmental grants; fiscal equalization; local and regional public service efficiency; inter-jurisdictional tax competition; and macroeconomic issues such as intergovernmental fiscal management and sub-central fiscal rules. Many of these working papers are outputs of the OECD Network on Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government. Related working papers on fiscal federalism issues are also published in other OECD working paper series on tax policy, economics, public governance and regional development. An integrated list of key papers produced by the Fiscal Network can be found at http://oe.cd/fiscalnetwork.
(Note: numbers 1, 6 and 8 are available in the OECD Economics Department Working Papers, as numbers 465, 626 and 705.)
English
- ISSN: 22265848 (online)
- https://doi.org/10.1787/22265848
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The spending power of sub-central governments
Steffen Bach, Hansjörg Blöchliger and Dominik Wallau
26 Sept 2018
This pilot study presents indicators that assess sub-central government (SCG) spending power by policy area. Traditional indicators – such as the share of SCG in total government spending – are often misleading as they underestimate the impact of...
Fiscal rules for sub-central governments
Douglas Sutherland, Robert Price and Isabelle Joumard
26 Sept 2018
Against a background of mounting demands for spending on services provided by sub-central governments, this paper examines how fiscal rules can help to ensure that pressure on resources is minimised and available resources are used efficiently....
Market mechanisms in public service provision
Hansjörg Blöchliger
26 Sept 2018
This paper compares and analyses the use of market mechanisms in core sub-central policy areas, namely education, health care, transport, social protection, and environment. Arrangements like tendering, outsourcing, user choice and competition, user...
Assigning responsibilities across levels of government
Dorothée Allain-Dupré
27 Sept 2018
The past decades have seen an undeniable trend towards decentralisation and greater diversity of multilevel governance arrangements around the world. Decentralisation outcomes depend on the way decentralisation is designed and implemented. A key...
The impact of decentralisation on the performance of health care systems
Sean Dougherty, Luca Lorenzoni, Alberto Marino and Fabrice Murtin
26 Mar 2019
This paper examines the relationship between the degree of administrative decentralisation across levels of government in health care decision-making and health care spending, life expectancy as well as hospital costs. This empirical analysis builds...
The spending power of sub-national decision makers across five policy sectors
Sean Dougherty and Leah Phillips
26 Mar 2019
The paper develops new measures of spending power and performance across five key sectors of sub-national government service delivery –- education, long-term care, transport services, social housing and health care. The new indicators reveal unique...
Cross-country evidence on the impact of decentralisation and school autonomy on educational performance
Carlos Xabel Lastra-Anadón and Sonia Mukherjee
26 Mar 2019
How do administrative and fiscal decentralisation relate to education system performance? The question is answered by exploiting a panel with several different measures of fiscal decentralisation: a measure of administrative decentralisation, as well...
Decentralisation and performance measurement systems in health care
Ivor Beazley, Sean Dougherty, Chris James, Caroline Penn and Leah Phillips
18 Apr 2019
Based on an OECD survey, this paper presents quantitative and qualitative data on the decentralisation of health systems, focusing on how they vary according to different institutional characteristics and what types of performance measurement systems...
Population ageing and sub-central governments
Céline Colin and Bert Brys
04 Dec 2019
The population in OECD countries is ageing rapidly, which will have significant macroeconomic impacts, including on public expenditure and tax revenues. This paper analyses the consequences of population ageing at the sub-central government (SCG)...
Twenty years of tax autonomy across levels of government
Sean Dougherty, Michelle Harding and Andrew Reschovsky
04 Dec 2019
The Network on Fiscal Relations has been assessing the degree of sub-central government tax autonomy in OECD countries for almost two decades. This paper provides an in-depth description of the methodology used to characterise tax autonomy. After...
Digitalisation challenges and opportunities for subnational governments
Luiz de Mello and Teresa Ter-Minassian
20 Apr 2020
The world economy and societies are going through a digital transformation that goes well beyond computerisation and use of information and telecommunications technologies. This transformation is creating opportunities and challenges for all levels...
Decentralisation and inter-governmental relations in the housing sector
Leah Phillips
25 May 2020
Based on a survey, this paper presents new data on the decentralisation of the housing system and co-ordination mechanisms across levels of government, focusing on the provision of social housing. Decision-making in social housing tends to be more...
Federalism and public health decentralisation in the time of COVID-19
Pietrangelo de Biase and Sean Dougherty
01 Feb 2021
The Coronavirus pandemic has put extreme pressure on public health services, often delivered at the local and regional levels of government. The paper focuses on how countries made changes to the configuration of federalism during the first wave of...
Funding and financing of local government public investment
Camila Vammalle and Indre Bambalaite
25 Mar 2021
The bulk of government investment is done at the local level in OECD countries, representing on average 41% of total public investment. Most studies on subnational government debt focus on the regional or state level, and very few studies analyse...
Fiscal rules for subnational governments
Camila Vammalle and Indre Bambalaite
25 Mar 2021
This paper describes and analyses the fiscal rules for subnational governments (SNGs) in OECD countries immediately prior to the COVID-19 crisis. It is based on information from the 2019 survey of fiscal rules for SNGs by the OECD Network on Fiscal...
Evaluating fiscal equalisation
Sean Dougherty and Kass Forman
06 Apr 2021
Fiscal equalisation refers to the transfer of financial resources to and between subnational governments with the aim of mitigating regional differences in fiscal capacity and expenditure needs. However, the determination of fiscal capacity and...
Improving subnational governments’ resilience in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic
Luiz de Mello and Teresa Ter-Minassian
30 Jun 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on lives, the economy, and the public finances worldwide, drawing attention to the need to enhance resilience to future shocks. This paper focuses on subnational governments, given their important and...
Ageing and the long-run fiscal sustainability of health care across levels of government
Pietrangelo de Biase, Sean Dougherty and Luca Lorenzoni
30 Jun 2022
OECD economies are undergoing a seemingly inevitable process of population ageing that has been changing income and consumption patterns. Notably, the demand for health services is expected to increase, while labour forces are projected to shrink....
Funding the future
Sean Dougherty, Pietrangelo de Biase and Luca Lorenzoni
30 Aug 2022
Government revenues may be affected by economic growth and changes in demographics over time. The effect of economic growth can be captured by long-run buoyancy – responsiveness of government revenues to GDP growth – while the demographic effect can...
Could insurance provide an alternative to fiscal support in crisis response?
Leigh Wolfrom
30 Sept 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic led to significant economic disruptions and revenue losses for business impacted by workplace closure measures aimed at restraining the spread of the virus. Governments provided extensive monetary and fiscal support to address...