A Theoretical and Empirical Study on Decentralized Local Public Finance

1 .我系统地考察了在分权制国家中发展起来的关于地方政府、地方公共财政和公共选择的经济分析。(i)总结果作为书出版；公共选择和权力下放。（二）建立并明确了当地居民集体决策的理论框架。并从配置效率的角度考察了关注集体选择的实证文献。这两项研究以论文的形式发表，并被吸附在上述书的一部分中。（三）W.E.Oates的《财政联邦主义》译本出版，是地方政府经济学领域的圣经教科书。二、在地方财政分权的理论和分析结果的基础上，尝试将这些思想运用到日本的地方财政中。(1)将地方公共产品理论应用于日本社区福利制度论证，并在学术会议上讨论分散化制度的可能性，并以论文形式发表。（二）将Oates提出的分权理论应用于日本财政分权的政策论证，作为论文的题目：分权的经济效应。（三）在地级市层面，估算地方公共产品的需求函数，这是分权理论的主要思想。这一结果在上面提到的书的某些章节中有所介绍，更多的分析正在进行中。（iv）关于政府间赠款对地方政府支出的影响的蝇纸效应的论点适用于日本赠款制度并进行了实证估计。这篇论文最终被德国期刊接受并发表。

I.Ihave systematically surveyed the economic analyzes with respect to local governmemts, local public finance and public choice which had been developed in the decentralized system or countries.(i) The total result was published as the book ; Public Choice and Decentralization.(ii) The theoretical framework of a collective decision-making for local residents was built and clarified. And empirical literature focusing on the collective choice from the viewpoint of allocative efficiency were examined. These two studies were published as a paper and adsorbed into a part of the book above mentioned.(iii) The translation of Fiscal Federalism written by W.E.Oates, which is a bible textbook in the field of local government economics, was published. I have taken a leadership of this work for several tears.II.Based on the theory and analytical results of decentralized local public finance, I have tried to apply those ideas to local public finance in Japan.(i) The theory of local public goods was applied to the arguments of community welfare system in Japan, and the possibility of the decentralized system was discussed at the academic meeting and also published as a paper.(ii) The decentralization theory presented by Oates was applied to the policy argument of fiscal decentralization in Japan as the title of the paper : the economic effect of decentralization.(iii) In the prefecture level, the demand function for local public goods was estimated, which is the main idea of the decentralization theory. This result was introduced in some chapter of the book mentioned above, and more analysis is being in progress.(iv) The argument of the flypaper effect, which is about the effect of intergovernmental grants on local government expenditure, was applied to the Japanese grant system and empirically estimated. This paper was finally accepted and published in German journal.