What is it about?

Intergovernmental grants are an important policy tool for federations. However, the literature is quiet when it comes to considering their role for policy experiments, namely in laboratory federalism. We introduce a theory that fills this lacuna.

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Why is it important?

Our paper shows how different grants are and can be used to induce different levels of policy experimentation.

Perspectives

I hope this article will stimulate more interest in the relatively underexplored area of the role of grants in laboratory federalism.

Giampaolo Garzarelli
Universita degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza

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This page is a summary of: Laboratory federalism and intergovernmental grants, Journal of Institutional Economics, December 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s1744137417000595.
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