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Knowledge, Coordination, and Fiscal Federalism: An Organizational Perspective

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Giampaolo GARZARELLI (University of Rome, La Sapienza)
Yasmina Reem LIMAM (The University of Connecticut)

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This essay brings fiscal federalism theory into contact with the knowledge perspective to economic organization. The question addressed is: can a central government be justified in the context of fiscal federalism on grounds of economic organization? We point out that if one looks at the organizational problem of the vertical structure of the public sector from the standpoint of knowledge asymmetry the question of a central government in a federation becomes primarily a story of coordination of dispersed and specific knowledge.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Public Economics with number 0304001.

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Date of creation: 05 Apr 2003
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Keywords: Federalism; economic organization; information asymmetry; knowledge asymmetry; coordination; EU.;

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D20 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - General
D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination
E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
H11 - Public Economics - - Structure and Scope of Government - - - Structure and Scope of Government
L22 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Organization and Market Structure

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