THE 55th INTERNATIONAL ATLANTIC ECONOMIC CONFERENCE
Vienna, Austria
12-16 March 2003

Decentralization and Stabilization
Saturday 13:45 - 15:45

Organizer: M. Peter van der Hoek, Erasmus University

Chair: Michael Ye, St. Mary's College of Maryland

Krzysztof S. Cichocki, Polish Academy of Sciences, Local Government Finances in Poland and the European Union Local Government Charta

Juan Carlos Molero, Universidad de Navarra, Matching Decentralization and Budgetary Stability in Spain

Miguel Roig-Alonso, University of Valencia, Arithmetic Fiscal Visibility Estimates for Decentralized OECD Countries

Ales Bulir, Czech National Bank, Cristina Arellano, Duke University, Timothy Lane and Leslie Lipschitz, International Monetary Fund, Aid and Tradable Goods in Aid-Dependent Countries

Discussants: Juan Carlos Molero, Universidad de Navarra, Krzysztof S. Cichocki, Polish Academy of Sciences, and Christophe Kamps, Kiel Institute for World Economics