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Regional inequality and decentralization : an empirical analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2011
This paper analyzes the impact of political and fiscal decentralization on regional inequalities using a unique data set which covers 56 countries at different stages of economic develop-ment. Cross-section and panel data estimations show that decentralization decreases regional inequalities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009295332
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Serving the public interest in several ways : theory and empirics
Dur, Robert A. J.; Lent, Max van - 2017
We develop a model where people differ in their altruistic preferences and can serve the public interest in two ways: by making donations to charity and by taking a public service job and exerting effort on the job. Our theory predicts that people who are more altruistic are more likely to take...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672030
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Competition in public service provision : the role of not-for-profit providers
Besley, Timothy; Malcomson, James M. - 2017
With public services such as health and education, it is not straightforward for consumers to assess the quality of provision. Many such services are provided by monopoly not-for-profit providers and there is concern that for-profit providers may increase profit at the expense of quality. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011761563
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Culture and tax structures
König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - 2012
We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503814
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Government spending efficiency in Latin America
Afonso, António; Fraga, Gabriela Baquero - 2022
We assess the public spending efficiency of 20 Latin American countries over the period of 2000-2019, computing Data … Envelopment Analysis efficiency scores. For the Public Sector Performance composite indicator, we use the annual data of socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013453984
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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 variable approaches, we estimate the effect of public sector efficiency …
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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 analysis. Second, relying on panel data and impulse response approaches, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280082
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Tax structure and public sector efficiency : new evidence for developing countries
Menescal, Lucas; Alves, José - 2023
This study examines the effects of the tax structure composition for public sector efficiency in a sample of 41 … indicators and use them as outputs to compute data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency scores under different orientation … different taxes for public efficiency in a panel regression specification. We find that tax effects are significantly different …
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Digital piracy : theory
Belleflamme, Paul; Peitz, Martin - 2010
This article reviews recent theoretical contributions on digital piracy. It starts by elaborating on the reasons for intellectual property protection, by reporting a few facts about copyright protection, and by examining reasons to become a digital pirate. Next, it provides an exploration of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008698398
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The endgame of telecommunications policy? : a survey
Vogelsang, Ingo - 2013
Will telecommunications policy in the form of industry-specific regulation go away? A literature review of the five policy areas (1) termination monopoly, (2) local bottleneck access, (3) net neutrality, (4) spectrum management, and (5) universal service suggests that in some of them a move to...
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