“…Comprehensive analysis of FD consequences allows to summarize its positive and negative aspects. So, the most widespread positive results of FD can be summarized as follows: fostering accountability and transparency of local government activities (Feruglio and Anderson, 2008;Faguet, 2012;Vasylyeva et al, 2014), and improving quality of public service delivery through compliance the principle of subsidiarity (Martinez-Vazquez, 2011;Faguet, 2012;Zizlavsky, 2016). Despite broad support of fiscal decentralization measures, experts also emphasize the existence of certain risks of its implementation, such as: an increase of macroeconomic instability level due to lack of centralized control over local finances (Feruglio and Anderson, 2008;Siemiatkowski, 2017); high dependence of reform effectiveness on the competence of local authorities (Bahl, 1999;Hart and Welham, 2016;Bobenic Hintosova et al, 2018); lack of financial support for projects covering several jurisdictions (for example, repairing roads of that cover territory of several regions - Shah, 2004;Chygryn, 2016); deepening of horizontal imbalances and competition between municipalities for financial resources (Lyeonov et al, 2018).…”