This report was produced by the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities (CFE) led by Lamia Kamal-Chaoui, Director. It is part of the multi-level governance Programme of Work of the OECD’s Regional Development Policy Committee.
The report was written by Dorothée Allain-Dupré, Isabelle Chatry and Antti Moisio from the OECD Secretariat, Decentralisation, Public Investment and Subnational Finance Unit in CFE. The report includes inputs from Varinia Michalun as well as comments by Rudiger Ahrend, Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Yingyin Wu, Isidora Zapata, from the OECD Secretariat.
The report also includes substantial contributions from Anwar Shah, expert in public economics and governance, Brookings Institution, Washington, DC (for chapter 5), as well as Arjan Schackel, Associate Director of the Bachelor European Studies (Maastricht University, Netherlands), Andreas Ladner, professor at the university of Lausanne and Nicolas Keuffer, senior researcher at the university of Lausanne (for Chapter 3).
The report was co-ordinated and supervised by Dorothée Allain-Dupré, Head of Unit, Decentralisation, Public Investment and Subnational Finance. This unit is in the Economic Analysis, Statistics and Multi-level Governance Section, led by Rudiger Ahrend, in CFE.
The authors gratefully acknowledge the comments and input received from the Delegates of the OECD Regional Development Policy Committee throughout the process. Comments received from the OECD Network on Fiscal Relations across Levels of Government are also gratefully acknowledged.
Thanks are also due to Eleonore Morena for editing and formatting the manuscript and to Pilar Philip who prepared the final publication.