The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space
The economic returns of decentralisation: Government quality and the role of space
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权力下放的经济回报：政府质量和空间的作用
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2022
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V. Muštra
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A. Rodríguez‐Pose;V. Muštra
关于权力下放影响的研究普遍忽视了这样一个事实，即将权力和资源转移到国家以下各级政府的经济回报在很大程度上取决于下放政府的质量。学术文献也忽略了这些返回可能同样受到邻近地区的自治及其政府质量的影响。在本文中，我们使用面板数据固定效应分析和空间杜宾计量经济模型，以评估在何种程度上的经济回报的政治和财政分权在2000年至2015年之间在欧盟的地方政府质量和邻近地区的调解。结果表明，区域自治的经济效益更大的地区，具有较好的政府质量，而低质量的政府增长较少，无论其权力下放的水平。权力下放的收益主要通过间接效应产生，因为如果被其他权力下放程度更高的地区所包围，这些地区的增长会比通过自己的权力下放程度更快。在所有情况下，地方政府的质量都是增长的强大驱动力，无论是单独考虑一个区域还是考虑其与邻国的关系。
Research on the impact of decentralisation has generally overlooked the fact that the economic returns of transferring powers and resources to subnational tiers of government greatly depend on the quality of the devolved government. Scholarly literature has also neglected that these returns may be similarly affected by the autonomy of neighbouring areas and their government quality. In this paper, we use panel data fixed effects analyses and spatial Durbin econometric models to assess the extent to which the economic returns of political and fiscal decentralisation in the European Union between 2000 and 2015 are mediated by local government quality and that of neighbouring regions. The results suggest that the economic benefits of regional autonomy are greater in regions with a better government quality, while regions with a low quality of government grow less, regardless of their level of decentralisation. The gains of decentralisation mainly accrue through indirect effects, as regions grow more if surrounded by other, more decentralised regions than through their own level of decentralisation. In all cases, local government quality is a powerful driver of growth, irrespective of whether a region is considered individually or in relationship to its neighbours.