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Size and Efficiency in African Manufacturing Firms:Evidence from Firm-Level Panel Data

Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - EconWPA - 2004

technology and the importance of technical and allocative efficiency. We show that the diversity of factor choices in not due to … a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity … differentials could be levelled out, substantial gains thorough improvements in allocative efficiency would be possible. …

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Qualitative Efficiency Assessment of Markets: An Institutional Approach to Training

Schonewille, Mark - EconWPA - 2004

, under the assumption that a positive relationship exists between efficiency and productivity. Finally, we compare … institutional efficiency scores of national training markets to other measures of productivity and ask whether a particular set of …We investigate the effect of institutions on efficiency of training markets. After setting up a theoretical …

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Community Perceptions of Unmeasured Quality Improvement in Goods and Services

Black, Ian - EconWPA - 2003

Because of the costs involved in such exercises, current productivity measures do not necessarily fully take into … contrast to productivity (incorporating changes in measured quality) estimates. For Australia as a whole in the 1989-90 to 1998 …-99 period, the annual multifactor productivity (MFP) increase was 1.64 percent and the annual increase in community preference …

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To Be or Not To Be in Office Again: Political Business Cycles with Local Governments

Baleiras, Rui Nuno; Costa, José da Silva - EconWPA - 2003

Most opportunistic-type models of political business cycles tend to posit a given objective for incumbents: maximisation of re-election chances. Though taking an opportunistic view too, we suggest a new explanation for a fiscal policy cycle: the incumbent’s concern with her own welfare in...

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Do public sector reforms get rusty? An empirical analysis on privatization of solid waste collection

Bel, Germa; Costas, Anton - EconWPA - 2004

Recent empirical evidence, from countries in the European Union in particular, are much more ambiguous on the costs savings from private production of local public services than previous literature used to be. In this paper, an explanatory model of factors driving costs in solid waste collection...

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The Politics of Tax Administration: Evidence from Spain

Esteller-More, Alejandro - EconWPA - 2003

Does there exist a connection between the political power and the tax administration? In this paper, we offer empirical evidence from Spain that there exists. First, the Spanish regional tax administration is not immune to the budgetary situation of the regional government, and tends to exert a...

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Tax Capacity Disparities and Fiscal Equalization: The Case of Spanish Local Governments

Castells, Antoni; Esteller-Moré, Alejandro; Vilalta, Maite - EconWPA - 2003

In the absence of an equalization grant system, like we justify occurs in Spain at the local level of government, those governments that bear a decrease in their level of tax capacity will have to adjust their budget either by increasing their level of tax effort, by reducing their level of...

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The Dynamics of Municipal Fiscal Adjustment

Buettner, Thiess; Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2003

The dynamic fiscal policy adjustment of local jurisdictions is investigated empirically using a panel of more than 1000 U.S.~municipalities over a quarter of a century. Distinguishing own revenue, grants, expenditures, and debt service, the analysis is carried out using a vector error-correction...

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Collusion and Commitment in Bank Bailout

ZHANG, Yanhua - EconWPA - 2005

Collusion and soft budget constraint are two conspicuous phenomena in transition economies¡¯ banking system. Literature has separately investigated those two phenomena from theoretical point of views. However, the cross-point of both phenomena has been neglected in the research of banking...

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Decentralisation and Poverty Reduction: A Conceptual Framework for the Economic Impact

Steiner, Susan - EconWPA - 2005

This paper contributes to providing insights into the impact of decentralisation on poverty. It starts out with an overview of which role decentralisation plays in strategies and policies for poverty eradication and derives economic and political impact channels. It concentrates on the economic...

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