MALİ ÖZERKLİK VE MALİ TEVZİN AÇISINDAN YEREL YÖNETİM VERGİ GELİRLERİNİN KİŞİ BAŞI GELİR VE EKONOMİK BÜYÜME İLE KARŞILIKLI NEDENSELLİK İLİŞKİSİ: SEÇİLMİŞ OECD ÜYESİ ÜLKELERDE MALİ YERELLEŞME ÜZERİNE BAZI ÇIKARIMLAR

Year 2019, Volume: 11 Issue: 20, 1 - 28, 29.05.2019

Selçuk Çağrı Esener

https://doi.org/10.20990/kilisiibfakademik.464702

Cited By: 1

Abstract

Bu
çalışma, mali desantralizasyon ve iktisadi büyüme arasında herhangi bir
nedensellik ilişkisinin olup olmadığını ve eğer varsa bunun yönünü incelemeyi
amaçlamaktadır. Bilinen teorik ve ampirik literatür mali yerelleşme
süreçlerinin bir şekilde ekonomik performansı olumlu etkileyeceğini varsaysa
dahi ekonomik büyüme değerlerinin mali yerelleşme faaliyetlerini
destekleyebileceğini göz ardı etmiştir. İlgi alanı, yöntemi ve örneklemleri
itibariyle farklı olmayı amaçlayan bu çalışmada, geniş bir teorik altyapı
araştırması sonrasında 18 ülkenin 1991-2015 yılları arasındaki çeyrek asırlık
dönemine ait veri setiyle Bootstrap Panel Granger Nedensellik sınaması
gerçekleştirmiştir. Bulgular, her iki değişkenin de farklı ülkeler için
birbirinin nedeni olabildiğini göstermektedir. Sonuçlara göre, Kanada, Fransa
ve Japonya’da desantralizasyon GSYİH değişkenlerini etkilerken Macaristan,
Polonya ve Avustralya’da ise bunun tersi bir durum söz konusudur. Öte yandan,
çalışmada, iki değişkenin birbirini anlamlı düzeyde etkilemediği tespit edilen
(Türkiye dâhil) ülkelere dair de maliye politikası özelinde birtakım
çıkarsamalar yer almaktadır.

Keywords

Desantralizasyon, Mali Tevzin, Yerel Vergiler, Ekonomik Büyüme, Panel Veri Analizi, Nedensellik

A TWO-WAY CAUSALITY BETWEEN LOCAL GOVERNMENT TAX REVENUE AND ECONOMIC GROWTH VARIABLES ON THE BASIS OF FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION AND FISCAL EQUALIZATION: SOME FISCAL AUTONOMY ANALYSES FOR THE SELECTED OECD COUNTRIES

Abstract

This study examines the existence and
direction of the panel causality between different fiscal decentralization and
economic growth variables. The well-known theoretical and empirical literature
has assumed that the fiscal decentralization process somehow causes economic
growth, but has mostly ignored the possibility of economic growth can cause and
change the decentralization levels as well. With its different point of
interest, methodology and samples; the study applies the Bootstrap Panel
Granger Causality Test to the data from 18 countries between 1991–2015 and
finds that both fiscal decentralization and economic growth causes each other
in different countries with relatively significant levels. According to the
results, the tested variables of fiscal decentralization cause GDP and GDP per
capita growth in Canada, France and Japan while in Hungary, Poland and
Australia ‘vice versa’ effect happens. Further to that, some fiscal policy
assessments are also done as a conclusion for the countries (like Turkey) which
fiscal decentralization has no or less effect in either way.

Keywords

Decentralization, Fiscal Equalization, Local Taxes, Economic Growth, Panel Data Analysis, Causality

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