Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/18886 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 1248
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the role of tax share and transparency of governance on growth and stagnation. A local government maximizes its private benefits using two activities. The first one consists of providing local public goods that help local firms to increase profits, thus enlarging tax revenue. The second one consists of extortion. We show that there is a threshold level of local government tax share, and a threshold level of transparency. Below these thresholds, the economy will stagnate and above them, the economy will achieve perpetual growth.
Subjects: 
corruption
growth
local government
tax share
JEL: 
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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