Fiscal Federalism and Long-Run Macroeconomic Performance

A Survey of Recent Research Lars P. Feld Jan Schnellenbach Abstract. In this paper, we offer both a broad survey of the literature on fiscal federalism and long-run economic performance, and a detailed report of some of our own recent studies in this field. We look at the difference between study types (cross-country versus single-country studies), and at the relevance of the broader institutional framework into which fiscal decentralization is…