The Benefits and Costs of Fiscal Decentralization in China

1 Introduction 2 Enhanced Insights into Intergovernmental Fiscal Relations in China 3 Fiscal Decentralization, Government Objectives and the Provision of Public Goods 4 Fiscal Decentralization, Local Protection and Market Segmentation 5 Fiscal Decentralization and Urban-Rural Income Gap 6 An Empirical Study on the Impact of Fiscal Decentralization on the Provision of Public Goods: A Case Study of Public Security 7 Fiscal Decentralization and Regional Disparities: A Case Study on Social Security Pooling 8 Revenue Sharing and Local Government Tax Effort 9 Local Government Scale and Tax Enforcement 10 Testing the "Flypaper Effect": The Influence of Transfer Payments on Local Fiscal Expenditures 11 Effects of Transfer Payments on Regional Economic Growth: Differences between General and Special Transfer Payments 12 Impact of Transfer Payments on Population Migration 13 Conclusions and Policy Recommendations