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A tale of government spending efficiency and trust in the state
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2022
This paper empirically links the efficiency and performance assessment of the general government, proxied by efficiency scores, to the trust in government. Government spending efficiency scores are first computed via data envelopment analysis (DEA). Then, relying on panel data and instrumental...
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Government spending and tax revenue decentralization and public sector efficiency : do natural disasters matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280082
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Inequality convergence and distribution neutral fiscal policy
Marjit, Sugata; Majumder, Amlan; Sarkar, Sandip; Yang, Lei - 2020 - This Version December 2019
coefficient over last four decades. This seems to suggest a robust empirical evidence that the growth or change in inequality … across nations has a negative relation with initial degree of inequality. This would imply that poorer nations starting with … higher degree of inequality experience weaker growth in inequality, exhibiting some sort of convergence in the inequality …
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