CESifo DICE Report 1/2004 (Spring)

Forum: Decentralising the public sector: Fiscal Decentralisation and Economic Growth: Is there Really a Link? (Fritz Breuss and Markus Eller) / The Impact of Decentralisation on Service Delivery, Corruption, Fiscal Management and Growth in Developing and Emerging Market Economies: A Synthesis of Empirical Evidence (Anwar Shah, Theresa Thompson and Heng-fu Zou) / Fiscal Decentralisation as a Mechanism to Modernise the State – Truths and Myths (Leonardo E. Letelier Saavedra) / What Drives Fiscal Decentralisation? (Ugo Panizza) / Transition and the Recent Reforms in Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in the Czech Republic (Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and João do Carmo Oliveira); Research Reports: Environmental Taxes: A Comparison of French and Swedish Experience from Taxes on Industrial Air Pollution (Katrin Millock, Céline Nauges and Thomas Sterner) / A Note on Public Spending Efficiency (António Afonso); Reform Models: What Can be Learned from Continental Europe’s Largest Privatisation Program? – Italy 1993 to 2003 (Andrea Goldstein) / Employment Pacts in Italy 1992 to 2002 (Sascha O. Becker); Database: Macroeconomic Management of Decentralised Fiscal Decisions / Individual Learning Accounts / Index of Performance of Family Related Policies / Capital Income Taxation in Europe / The Early Retirement Burden in OECD Countries / Two Waves of Pension Reforms in Eastern Europe; News: New at DICE Database, Conferences