From Subsidiarity to Success: The Impact of Decentralisation on Economic Growth. Summary and Conclusions. A study commissioned by the Assembly of European Regions (AER), May 2009

Do regions with more competences perform better than others? Are countries with a higher degree of decentralisation economically more successful than centrally
governed countries?

The aim of the study “From Subsidiarity to Success: The Impact of Decentralisation on Economic Growth”, commissioned by the Assembly of European Regions (AER) and produced by BAK Basel Economics, is to seek links between the degree of autonomy of a region, or the degree of decentralisation within a country, and economic development.

The project has been divided into two parts. The first
part describes how to measure decentralisation and presents the results of this measurement. The second part deals with the impact – explored through theoretical and econometric analysis – of decentralisation on economic performance and
on the innovation capacity of regions.

AER: From Subsidiarity to Success: The Impact of Decentralisation on Economic Growth. Full report, May 2009 http://www.aer.eu/publications/aer-study.html

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