main determinants of the observed efficiency are. Thus, this paper highlights two cumulative issues that municipalities as …. -- municipalities ; efficiency ; tax revenue …Distribution of tax revenue among municipalities - which are constitutionally official federal entities in Brazil - is …

This paper estimates a stochastic production frontier, to investigate whether municipalities covered by oil royalties … variable as instruments in the inefficiency equation. The data set is composed of a panel of Brazilian municipalities from 2002 … fiscal effort by the benefiting municipalities. …

influence the efficiency of health services provided by municipalities. Therefore, we can provide two practical public policy … exchange of experiences from successful efficiency programs that have enabled a limited number of municipalities to transform …Distribution of fiscal income among municipalities - which are constitutionally federal official entities in Brazil …

government, states and municipalities together offer public, free for all full health coverage. The complexity and territorial …. This legal framework establishes that the municipalities are competent and responsible for providing basic health attention … and under which determinants municipalities' personnel expenses are correlated to increases in health service provision …

oil windfalls - royalties and special participation - on benefited Municipalities have been intensified. This article aims … municipalities treated with oil resources. The aim is to investigate whether these transfers reduce the own tax effort of cities … covered by such revenues. For this, we applied the Double Robust method to a panel of municipalities observed from 2000 to …