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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809528803321

Autore

Crivelli Ernesto

Titolo

Local Governments’ Fiscal Balance, Privatization, and Banking Sector Reform in Transition Countries / / Ernesto Crivelli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

1-4755-5102-9

1-4755-3986-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (29 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Disciplina

332.1/52

Soggetti

Decentralization in government

Privatization

Banking

Banks and Banking

Banks and banking

Banks

Budget planning and preparation

Budget Systems

Budget

Budgeting & financial management

Budgeting

Commercial banks

Comparison of Public and Private Enterprises and Nonprofit Institutions

Contracting Out

Debt Management

Debt

Depository Institutions

Economic sectors

Federalism

Finance, Public

Financial institutions

Government asset and liability management

Government business enterprises

Intergovernmental Relations

Macroeconomics

Micro Finance Institutions

Mortgages

National Budget

Nationalization



Nonprofit Organizations and Public Enterprise: General

Public enterprises

Public finance & taxation

Public Finance

Public financial management (PFM)

Public ownership

Secession

Sovereign Debt

State and Local Borrowing

Russian Federation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Decentralization, Fiscal Balances, and Privatization: Background; III. Empirical Specification and Data; A. Empirical Specification; B. Estimation; C. Data; IV. Results; Tables; 1. Main Results; V. Further Analysis; 2. Robustness Results; VI. Discussion and Conclusions; Appendices; A. Data; A.1. Descriptive Statistics; B. Robustness to Instrument Choice; B.1. Robustness to instrument choice: Main results; B.2. Robustness to Instrument Choice: Further Results; References

Sommario/riassunto

Several transition economies have undertaken fiscal decentralization reforms over the past two decades along with liberalization, privatization, and stabilization reforms. Theory predicts that decentralization may aggravate fiscal imbalances, unless the right incentives are in place to promote fiscal discipline. This paper uses a panel of 20 transition countries over 19 years to address a central question of fact: Did privatization help to promote local governments’ fiscal discipline? The answer is clearly ‘no’ for privatization considered in isolation. However, privatization and subnational fiscal autonomy along with reforms to the banking system - restraining access to soft financing - may prove effective at improving fiscal balances among local governments.