We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government spending efficiency scores via data envelopment...

The federal budget for 9 months of 2022 was executed with a surplus of Rb 54.7 bn. The dynamics of revenues is slowing down, with the growth of rental revenues by 1.4 p.p. against the same period of the previous year and does not compensate for the fall of non-oil and gas revenues by 2.0 p.p. of...

Queensland’s community services sector experiences underfunding in part due to a lack of adequate indexation of government pricing for services purchased. This problem accumulates year-on-year to increase in significance as time progresses. This was demonstrated in research conducted in 2022...

We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...

Using a novel large-scale dataset that links thousands of expenditure programs to the Sustainable Development Goals for over a decade, we analyze the impact of public expenditure on more than 100 different development indicators. Contrary to the single-dimensional view of evaluating expenditure...