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Some Determinants of Intermediate Local Governments' Spending Efficiency: The Case of French Départements

Nieswand, Maria; Seifert, Stefan - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

subnational governments by transferring additional tasks. This paper analyzes the efficiency of public spending on an intermediate … government level for a sample of 96 départements in metropolitan France in 2008. Spending efficiency is measured using Data … between 10 and 22 percent, depending on model specification. To explain efficiency, a bootstrapped truncated regression …

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Turning Unemployment into Self-Employment: Effectiveness and Efficiency of Two Start-Up Programmes

Baumgartner, Hans J.; Caliendo, Marco - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

, based on the results of this analysis, we conduct an efficiency analysis, i.e., we estimate whether the Federal Employment …

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Potential Gains from Mergers in Local Public Transport: An Efficiency Analysis Applied to Germany

Walter, Matthias; Cullmann, Astrid - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2008

that operate partially on a joint tram network. Merger gains are then decomposed into individual technical efficiency …

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Taxation, Insurance and Precautionary Labor

Netzer, Nick; Scheuer, Florian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

We examine optimal taxation and social insurance if insurance markets are imperfect. This requires the development of a theory of labor supply under uncertainty. We show that the case for social insurance is not generally reinforced by adverse selection in insurance markets as social insurance...

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Parties Matter in Allocating Expenditures: Evidence from Germany

Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

I test if parties matter with respect to the allocation of public expenditures in Germany. Considering the allocation of rights and duties due to the federal structure, two econometric models are estimated. First, a SURE model analyses spending at the federal level for the period from 1950 to...

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Political Effects on the Allocation of Public Expenditures: Empirical Evidence from OECD Countries

Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2006

This paper examines the effects of political determinants on the allocation of public expenditures. Analyzing an OECD panel from 1990 to 2004, a SURE model controls for the contemporaneous correlation between the different expenditure categories (COFOG). I find that left governments set other...

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Social Expenditures as a Political Cue Ball?: OECD Countries under Examination

Potrafke, Niklas - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2007

This paper examines how policy affects social expenditures. Analyzing an OECD panel from 1980 to 2003, five political variables are tested: Election- and pre-election years, the ideological party composition of the governments, the number of coalition partners and the fact, if the ruling...

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Finding Your Right (or Left) Partner to Merge

Bruns, Benjamin; Freier, Ronny; Schumann, Abel - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2015

We study political determinants of municipality amalgamations during a boundary reform in the German state of Brandenburg, which reduced the number of municipalities from 1,489 to 421. The analysis is conducted using data on the political decision makers as well as fiscal and socio-economic...

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Incumbency, Party Identity and Governmental Lead: Evidence for Heterogeneous Incumbency Effects for Germany

Ade, Florian; Freier, Ronny; Odendahl, Christian - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

Do incumbents in an election have an advantage, and if so, are these advantages heterogeneous across parties or government and opposition? We first present a theoretical discussion on the possible heterogeneity of incumbency effects in a pure two-party system. Then, we estimate the incumbency...

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Incumbency as the Major Advantage: The Electoral Advantage for Parties of Incumbent Mayors

Freier, Ronny - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2011

This paper provides empirical evidence on the party incumbency advantage in mayoral elections in Germany. Using a regression discontinuity design on a data set of about 25,000 elections, I estimate a causal incumbency effect of 38-40 percentage points in the probability of winning the next mayor...

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