Measuring fiscal decentralisation : concepts and policies / edited by Junghun Kim, Jörgen Lotz, and Hansjorg Blöchliger.

"To identify what issues deserve the attention of the Network, the OECD, with the support of the Korean Institute of Public Finance arranged an expert meeting in Paris on 10-11 March 2011. This volume contains the papers presented at the meeting.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available online.

Measuring decentralisation: the OECD fiscal decentralisation database / Hansjörg Blöchliger -- On grant policy and the OECD-taxonomy of grants / Jorgen Lotz -- Measurement of decentralisation: how should we categorise tax sharing?/ Junghun Kim -- Role of decentralisation indicators in empirical research / Nobuo Akai -- Measuring the extent of fiscal decentralisation: an application to the United States / Yongzheng Liu, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Andrey Timofeev -- Measuring decentralisation of public sector activities: conceptual issues and the case of Germany / Paul Bernd Spahn -- Taxonomy of grants and local taxes: the Norwegian case / Lars-Erik Borge -- Measuring decentralisation: the challenge of the Danish story / Jens Blom-Hansen -- From transfers to tax "co-occupation": the Italian reform of intergovernmental finance / Ernesto Longobardi.