Type of Document	Dissertation
Author	Buser, Whitney Douglas
URN	etd-10042010-205052
Title	THE IMPACT OF PUBLIC SECTOR FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION ON ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND GOVERNMENT SIZE ACROSS HIGH INCOME OECD COUNTRIES: AN INSTITUTIONAL APPROACH
Degree	Doctor of Philosophy
Department	Economics, Department of
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Randall Holcombe Committee Chair Bruce Benson Committee Member Tom Zuehlke Committee Member Charles Barrilleaux University Representative
Keywords	Fiscal Decentralization Federalism Institutional Economics Economic Freedom
Date of Defense	2010-08-06
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This dissertation examines the impact of fiscal decentralization of the public sector on both income levels and government size relative to GDP across a sample of twenty high-income OECD countries. Both pooled and country fixed effects panel data analysis is performed on this sample spanning the years 1972 through 2005. Polynomial regressions were also included in the multivariate analysis to control for the possibility of a non-linear relationship between these two pair of variables. Results indicate that fiscal decentralization increases income levels at a decreasing rate. Fiscal decentralization has the same immediate effects on government size. However, the cumulative effects of public sector decentralization are evidenced to decrease government size in the long run.
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