David Bartolini and Raffaella Santolini   ''Fiscal autonomy and quality of governance in OECD countries'' ( 2013, Vol. 33 No.1 )     Using a panel of 24 OECD countries, we study the link between the autonomy of sub-national governments and the quality of governance of a country. The results show that fiscal autonomy worsens citizens' perceptions of governance quality. In particular, the delegation of policy responsibilities to the regional level produces a robust negative effect on quality.     Keywords: Fiscal autonomy, Quality of governance, Fixed-effects vector decomposition estimator, Panel data analysis JEL: D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General H1 - Structure and Scope of Government: General   Manuscript Received : Jan 16 2013   Manuscript Accepted : Mar 12 2013   This abstract has been downloaded 1831 times                The Full PDF of this paper has been downloaded 173507 times