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The impact of intergovernmental grants on cost efficiency : theory and evidence from German municipalities
Kalb, Alexander (contributor) - 2008
In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on the cost effciency of local jurisdictions. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalization or an increase in the amount of grants received...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003728661
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What determines local governments' technical efficiency? : the case of road maintenance
Kalb, Alexander - 2009
In this paper we investigate the determinants of local governments' technical efficiency in road maintenance for a panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, we calculate efficiency indices using non-parametric (DEA) and parametric (stochastic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003880933
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The indirect effects of direct democracy : local government size and non-budgetary voter initiatives
Asatryan, Zareh - 2014
Recently a wide and empirically-backed consensus has emerged arguing that direct democratic control over government's spending decisions through initiatives and referenda constrains government size. But what happens if budgetary matters are excluded from the voters' right of the initiative? I...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229890
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Planning or propaganda? : An evaluation of Germany's medium-term budgetary planning
Heinemann, Friedrich (contributor) - 2005
In Germany, the medium-term financial planning (Mifrifiʺ) was introduced at the end of the sixties. This study … Treaty appears to have transformed Germany’s budgetary planning not into the direction of more credible and binding …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002591081
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Direct democracy and local government efficiency
Asatryan, Zareh; De Witte, Kristof - 2014
This paper studies the role of direct democracy in ensuring efficient and cost effective provision of goods and services in the public sector. The sample consists of the population of municipalities in the German State of Bavaria, where in the mid-1990s considerable direct democratic reforms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010249630
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Merging county administrations : cross-national evidence of fiscal and political effects
Blesse, Sebastian; Rösel, Felix - 2018
: counties act autonomously as upperlevel local governments (Germany), or counties being decentralised branches of the state …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011868588
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Benchmarking regions : estimating the counterfactual distribution of labor market outcomes
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Furdas, Marina - 2012
This paper develops and implements a new benchmarking approach for labor market regions. Based on panel data for regions, we use nonparametric matching techniques to account for observed labor market characteristics and for spatial proximity. As the benchmark, we estimate the counterfactual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009520122
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Still searching for the wage curve : evidence from Germany and Italy
Ammermüller, Andreas (contributor) - 2007
This paper investigates the functioning of regional labour markets in Italy and Germany for different employee groups … Italy. In the case of Germany, results are quite sensitive to the model specification and the employee group considered. In …. In the light of high and persistent differences in unemployment and wage rates between the North and South of Italy and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003435419
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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change : an assessment for the European Union
Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010
adaptation in Europe, and in particular Germany, Finland and Italy. Furthermore, a systematic overview on fiscal aspects of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003989027
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External costs of road, rail and air transport : a bottom-up approach
Weinreich, Sigurd; Rennings, Klaus; Schlomann, Barbara - 1998
This paper aims to describe the calculation of environmental and health externalities caused by air pollutants, accidents and noise from different transport modes (road, rail, air) on the route Frankfurt-Milan. The investigation is part of the QUITS project (QUITS = Quality Indicators for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441052