Mark | Date Date | Title Title | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
No. 49 | 22 Jul 2024 |
Adapting intergovernmental fiscal transfers for the future
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IFTs) play a crucial role in addressing vertical and horizontal imbalances, promoting equitable service delivery, and aligning local spending with national priorities across OECD countries. However, their design... |
|||
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.... |
|||
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... |
|||
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... |
|||
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... |
|||
No. 43 | 06 Jun 2023 |
Decarbonisation and intergovernmental fiscal relations
This paper explores the nexus between decarbonisation and intergovernmental fiscal relations, focusing on related challenges and reform options. It highlights the significant role of subnational governments in tackling climate change. Subnational and... |
|||
No. 14 | 03 Jun 2013 |
Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 1: How Fiscal Federalism Affects Long-Term Development
Intergovernmental fiscal frameworks usually reflect fundamental societal choices and history and are not foremost geared towards achieving economic policy objectives. Yet, like most institutional arrangements, fiscal relations affect the behaviour of... |
|||
No. 15 | 03 Jun 2013 |
Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 2: The Impact on Economic Activity, Productivity and Investment
This paper analyses the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economic activity. Like other institutional arrangements, fiscal decentralisation affects firms, households and public entities, and the way they save, invest, spend or... |
|||
No. 16 | 03 Jun 2013 |
Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 3: Decentralisation, Infrastructure Investment and Educational Performance
Theories of fiscal competition between jurisdictions suggest that investment in productive relative to consumptive spending is higher in a decentralised setting, and that efficiency of the public sector is also higher. This paper empirically analyses... |
|||
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... |
|||
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... |
|||
No. 21 | 27 Feb 2018 |
Decentralisation in a Globalised World
Globalisation accompanied by the growing importance of information technology and knowledge-based production pose challenging problems for federations. We summarise the difficulties that traditional decentralised federations face in addressing... |
|||
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... |
|||
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... |
|||
No. 11 | 12 Jan 2010 |
Explaining the Sub-National Tax-Grants Balance in OECD Countries
Normative principles provide a relatively clear set of rules for the balance between grants and taxes (box 1 reviews the normative theory), but in practice a variety of types of tax-grant systems are observed in OECD countries, which do not all... |
|||
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... |
|||
No. 10 | 17 Jun 2009 |
Finding the Dividing Line Between Tax Sharing and Grants
Tax sharing and intergovernmental grants are two sub-central funding arrangements that are often difficult to disentangle. The dividing line is not drawn uniformly across OECD countries or across time, and rules established in National Accounts,... |
|||
No. 2 | 11 Sept 2006 |
Fiscal Autonomy of Sub-Central Governments
State and local governments in OECD countries have access to a variety of fiscal resources. Discretion over these resources varies considerably, and so does sub-central governments’ power to shape public service delivery. The design of fiscal... |
|||
No. 4 | 05 Sept 2007 |
Fiscal Equalisation in OECD Countries
Fiscal equalisation is a transfer of fiscal resources across jurisdictions with the aim of offsetting differences in revenue raising capacity or public service cost. Its principal objective is to allow sub-central governments to provide their... |
|||
No. 12 | 05 Mar 2010 |
Fiscal Policy Across Levels of Government in Times of Crisis
The world is recovering from the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. The recovery will probably be shallow and government deficits could remain very large over the next few years in a number of countries. The crisis has a... |
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
1 - 20 of 49 results
Adapting intergovernmental fiscal transfers for the future
Sean Dougherty, Andoni Montes Nebreda and Tatiana Mota
22 Jul 2024
Intergovernmental fiscal transfers (IFTs) play a crucial role in addressing vertical and horizontal imbalances, promoting equitable service delivery, and aligning local spending with national priorities across OECD countries. However, their design...
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....
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...
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...
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...
Decarbonisation and intergovernmental fiscal relations
Luiz de Mello and Teresa Ter-Minassian
06 Jun 2023
This paper explores the nexus between decarbonisation and intergovernmental fiscal relations, focusing on related challenges and reform options. It highlights the significant role of subnational governments in tackling climate change. Subnational and...
Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 1: How Fiscal Federalism Affects Long-Term Development
Hansjörg Blöchliger
03 Jun 2013
Intergovernmental fiscal frameworks usually reflect fundamental societal choices and history and are not foremost geared towards achieving economic policy objectives. Yet, like most institutional arrangements, fiscal relations affect the behaviour of...
Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 2: The Impact on Economic Activity, Productivity and Investment
Hansjörg Blöchliger and Balázs Égert
03 Jun 2013
This paper analyses the relationship between fiscal decentralisation and economic activity. Like other institutional arrangements, fiscal decentralisation affects firms, households and public entities, and the way they save, invest, spend or...
Decentralisation and Economic Growth - Part 3: Decentralisation, Infrastructure Investment and Educational Performance
Kaja Fredriksen
03 Jun 2013
Theories of fiscal competition between jurisdictions suggest that investment in productive relative to consumptive spending is higher in a decentralised setting, and that efficiency of the public sector is also higher. This paper empirically analyses...
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...
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...
Decentralisation in a Globalised World
Robin Boadway and Sean Dougherty
27 Feb 2018
Globalisation accompanied by the growing importance of information technology and knowledge-based production pose challenging problems for federations. We summarise the difficulties that traditional decentralised federations face in addressing...
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...
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...
Explaining the Sub-National Tax-Grants Balance in OECD Countries
Claire Charbit
12 Jan 2010
Normative principles provide a relatively clear set of rules for the balance between grants and taxes (box 1 reviews the normative theory), but in practice a variety of types of tax-grant systems are observed in OECD countries, which do not all...
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...
Finding the Dividing Line Between Tax Sharing and Grants
Hansjörg Blöchliger and Oliver Petzold
17 Jun 2009
Tax sharing and intergovernmental grants are two sub-central funding arrangements that are often difficult to disentangle. The dividing line is not drawn uniformly across OECD countries or across time, and rules established in National Accounts,...
Fiscal Autonomy of Sub-Central Governments
Hansjörg Blöchliger and David King
11 Sept 2006
State and local governments in OECD countries have access to a variety of fiscal resources. Discretion over these resources varies considerably, and so does sub-central governments’ power to shape public service delivery. The design of fiscal...
Fiscal Equalisation in OECD Countries
Hansjörg Blöchliger, Olaf Merk, Claire Charbit and Lee Mizell
05 Sept 2007
Fiscal equalisation is a transfer of fiscal resources across jurisdictions with the aim of offsetting differences in revenue raising capacity or public service cost. Its principal objective is to allow sub-central governments to provide their...
Fiscal Policy Across Levels of Government in Times of Crisis
Hansjörg Blöchliger, Monica Brezzi, Claire Charbit, Mauro Migotto, José Maria Pinero Campos and Camila Vammalle
05 Mar 2010
The world is recovering from the worst economic and financial crisis since the Great Depression. The recovery will probably be shallow and government deficits could remain very large over the next few years in a number of countries. The crisis has a...