policy makers. This work uses the first three cutoffs of the transfer rules of the Municipal Participation Fund (FPM) and … applies a Discontinuous Regression model (RDD) to capture the effects that affect municipal budget rates during the years 2013 …

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 …

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

This paper analyzes local political cycle in Czech municipalities over the period between 1997 and 2013. We apply the …, municipalities increase capital spending (primarily on infrastructure, housing, leisure activities) and decrease current spending …

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 …

across the globe. This paper estimates how seven voluntary splits of Swedish municipalities affected municipal current costs … norm minimization. Our results do not support the standard view, that smaller municipalities imply higher per capita costs …. Instead, we find an intriguing heterogeneity: costs increase in some municipalities, are unaffected in others and decrease …

opportunities in the peripheral areas alongside skills shortages in the dynamic centre. Inequalities between municipalities are the …

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