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Fiscal Decentralization and Local Borrowing in Turkish Provinces

Fiscal Decentralization and Local Borrowing in Turkish Provinces

Mehmet Serkan Tosun, Dilek Uz, Serdar Yılmaz
ISBN13: 9781522500537|ISBN10: 1522500537|EISBN13: 9781522500544
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-0053-7.ch022
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Tosun, Mehmet Serkan, et al. "Fiscal Decentralization and Local Borrowing in Turkish Provinces." Handbook of Research on Public Finance in Europe and the MENA Region, edited by M. Mustafa Erdoğdu and Bryan Christiansen, IGI Global, 2016, pp. 505-519. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0053-7.ch022

APA

Tosun, M. S., Uz, D., & Yılmaz, S. (2016). Fiscal Decentralization and Local Borrowing in Turkish Provinces. In M. Erdoğdu & B. Christiansen (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Public Finance in Europe and the MENA Region (pp. 505-519). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0053-7.ch022

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Tosun, Mehmet Serkan, Dilek Uz, and Serdar Yılmaz. "Fiscal Decentralization and Local Borrowing in Turkish Provinces." In Handbook of Research on Public Finance in Europe and the MENA Region, edited by M. Mustafa Erdoğdu and Bryan Christiansen, 505-519. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-0053-7.ch022

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Abstract

There have been important developments in the decentralization of the government structure in Turkey since the early 1980s. This paper examines the link between fiscal decentralization and local borrowing within Turkish provinces. It first discusses local government reforms throughout the history of the Turkish Republic with the focus on recent reform efforts and current local government structure. It then provides an empirical analysis of the effects of decentralization in Turkish provinces using cross-sectional and panel data approaches, and spatial econometrics. The dataset consists of 67 provinces from 1980 to 2000, and separately cross-sectional data on all 81 provinces for the year 2000. Using decentralization measures such as number of local governments per capita and ratio of own-source municipal revenue to total provincial tax revenue, and specific characteristics of the municipalities the analysis examines whether variations in local decentralization across these provinces and across time have had a significant impact municipal borrowing in those provinces.

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