TY - BOOK ID - 84544158 TI - Fiscal Performance, Institutional Design and Decentralization in European Union Countries AU - Eyraud, Luc. AU - Escolano, Julio. AU - Moreno Badia, Marialuz. AU - Sarnes, Juliane. AU - Tuladhar, Anita. PY - 2012 VL - WP/12/45 SN - 1463943652 1463943644 PB - Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, DB - UniCat KW - Decentralization in government KW - Fiscal policy KW - Tax policy KW - Taxation KW - Economic policy KW - Finance, Public KW - Centralization in government KW - Devolution in government KW - Government centralization KW - Government decentralization KW - Government devolution KW - Political science KW - Central-local government relations KW - Federal government KW - Local government KW - Public administration KW - Econometric models. KW - Government policy KW - Budgeting KW - Macroeconomics KW - Public Finance KW - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue KW - Intergovernmental Relations KW - Federalism KW - Secession KW - Fiscal Policies and Behavior of Economic Agents: General KW - Fiscal Policy KW - National Budget KW - Budget Systems KW - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies: General KW - Budgeting & financial management KW - Public finance & taxation KW - Fiscal rules KW - Fiscal federalism KW - Fiscal stance KW - General government spending KW - Expenditure KW - Public financial management (PFM) KW - Budget KW - Expenditures, Public KW - Denmark UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:84544158 AB - This paper analyzes the impact of decentralization on overall fiscal performance in the European Union, taking into account fiscal institutional arrangements. We find that spending decentralization has been associated with sizably better fiscal performance, especially when transfer dependency of subnational governments is low. However, subnational fiscal rules do not seem to be associated with better performance. ER -