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DECENTRALIZATION AND EFFIENCY IN SPANISH LOCAL GOVERMENT

Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Prior, Diego; Balaguer-Coll, … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2006

This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of competencies among Spanish local … municipalities were conferred on more competencies. In addition, the likely efficiency gains from enhanceddecentralization increase …

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Devolution dynamics of Spanish local government

Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Jiménez, Diego Prior; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2010

based on linearprogramming approaches for efficiency measurement. We provide an application to Spanishmunicipalities, which …

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ON THE DETERMINANTS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE: A TWO-STAGE NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH

Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Prior, Diego; Balaguer-Coll, … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2004

This article analyzes the efficiency of Comunitat Valenciana (Spain) local governments and their main explanatory … variables. The analysis is performed in two stages. Firstly, efficiency is measured via (nonparametric) activity analysis … primarily overall cost, technical, or allocative. The second stage identifies some critical determinants of efficiency, focusing …

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Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities: a robust metafrontier approach

Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Jiménez, Diego Prior; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2010

Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the productive efficiency of local governments in different … analysis in which the efficiency of municipalities is evaluated after splitting them into clusters according to various … results show that both output mix and, more especially, environmental conditions, should be controlled for, since efficiency …

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Collusion, competition and piracy

Martínez-Sánchez, Francisco - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2009

In this paper we analyze firms' ability to tacitly collude on pricesin an infinitely repeated duopoly game of vertical productdifferentiation. We show that firms collude if and only if their discountfactor is high enough, i.e. if they value future profits sufficiently. We alsoshow that a lower...

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ELECTION ON RETIREMENT AGE

Lagos, Francisco M.; Lacomba, Juan Antonio - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2001

We analyze the relationship between wage distribution, degree of redistribution of the Social Security and effective retirement age. We develop a two-staged political economy model. In the first stage government chooses the redistribution level of the Social Security Program, according to three...

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COMPETENCIA VERSUS PODER DE MONOPOLIO EN LA BANCA ESPAÑOLA

García, Francisco Pérez; Villarroya, Joaquín Maudos - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2001

This paper analyses the degree of competition among banks and savings banks during the 1992-99 period using two industrial organisation tools: the Panzar and Rosse contrast (1987) and Lerner¿s estimation of indices. Panzar and Rosse¿s contrast does not allow to reject the monopolistic...

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MARKET POWER IN EUROPEAN BANKING SECTORS

García, Francisco Pérez; Villarroya, Joaquín Maudos; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2002

This study analyses the evolution of market power in the banking sectors of the European Union based on the estimation of Lerner indices. Using a panel of 18,810 observations of the banking industries of Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom during the period 1992-99, the results...

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THE SPANISH SHARING RULE

Zamora, Bernarda - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2002

In this paper we estimate the intrahousehold distribution of household's private expenditures between men and women (the sharing rule) in two types of Spanish households: those in which the woman works and those in which the woman does not work. The results for working women are parallel to...

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Models à La Lancaster and à La Hoteling: When they are the same

Peitz, Martin - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 1997

Consumer behavior in differentiated product markets can be specified following the Lancastriancharacteristics approach or following Hotelling´s approach of spatial competition. In the case ofunit demand I present a class of models of (heterogeneous) consumer behavior which can bewritten as...

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