Fiscal decentralization and the challenge of hard budget constraints /
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Cambridge, Mass. :
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Table of Contents:
- Transfers and bailouts: enforcing local fiscal discipline with lessons from U.S. federalism / Robert P. Inman
- Constraining subnational fiscal behavior in Canada: different approaches, similar results? / Richard M. Bird and Almos Tassonyi
- Vertical imbalance and fiscal behavior in a welfare state: Norway / Jørn Rattsø
- Soft budget constraints and German federalism / Jonathan Rodden
- Argentina: hardening the provincial budget constraint / Stephen B. Webb
- Federalism and bailouts in Brazil / Jonathan Rodden
- The challenge of fiscal discipline in the Indian states / William J. McCarten
- Soft budget constraints and local government in China / Jing Jin and Heng-fu Zou
- Creating incentives for fiscal discipline in the new South Africa / Junaid Ahmad
- Systematic soft budget constraints in Ukraine / Sean O'Connell and Deborah Wetzel
- Strengthening hard budget constraints in Hungary / Deborah Wetzel and Anita Papp
- Lessons and conclusions / Jonathan Rodden and Gunnar S. Eskeland.