policymakers. This work uses the first three cutoffs of the transfer rules of the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM) and applies a … regression discontinuity designs (RDD) to capture the effects that have impacted municipal budget rates from 2013 to 2016. The …

data for 296 Flemish municipalities provides empirical support for this contention. …

data for 296 Flemish municipalities provides empirical support for this contention. …

discontinuity design (RDD) approach. This method allows us to estimate differences in economic growth around an estimated threshold …

discontinuity design (RDD) approach. This method allows us to estimate differences in economic growth around an estimated threshold …

The paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the …-estimate the model for spending shares. We have found that the size of municipalities matters, and unsurprisingly, small … municipalities do not increase spending in such an extent as bigger municipalities, though big municipalities tend to have lower …

Municipalities may have various motives for decisions on the mode of their task execution. Empirical studies – based on … of additional motives and to test these statistically. As we find, municipalities do not regularly evaluate the service … provision of their activities. Only in case of structural underperformance, municipalities consider a change of service provider …

manage their expenditures. Since municipalities in Brazil are very heterogeneous, we estimate their efficiency using the …