The Handbook of Fiscal Federalism, edited by Ehtisham Ahmad (IMF) and Giorgio Brosio (University of Turin) and published by Edward Elgar in 2006, gathers 21 chapters by leading economists and political scientists on how decentralized and federal systems are designed and financed.
It is organised in four parts: approaches to fiscal federalism (political economy, competition between governments, asymmetric and contract federalism), decentralization and development, implementing multilevel fiscal systems (assignment of functions and revenues, tax competition, transfers, subnational financial management), and emerging issues such as natural-resource revenues, the environment, corruption and national unity.