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Stimulating Local Public Employment : Do General Grants Work?

Lundqvist, Heléne - 2010

The effectiveness of public funds in increasing public employment has long been a question on public and labor economists' minds. In most federal countries local governments employ large fractions of the working population, meaning that a tool for stimulating local public employment can...

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Stimulating local public employment : do general grants work?

Lundqvist, Heléne; Dahlberg, Matz; Mörk, Eva - 2010

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Elections and government efficiency

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Politicians are expected to influence policy outcomes in a way to gain electoral advantage. There is, however, a pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine how electoral cycles influence local government...

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Firm behaviour and public infrastructure : the case of Hungary

Békés, Gábor; Muraközy, Balázs - 2005

productivity of firms. Development indicators include local research and development activity or education while policy decisions … large national panel of firms. Importantly, such a rich dataset has rarely been employed for productivity and location … choice exercises. The paper is composed of two sections dealing with location choice and productivity, respectively and we …

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Sharing competences : the impact of local institutional settings on voter turnout

Michelsen, Claus; Bönisch, Peter; Rosenfeld, Martin T. W. - 2010

Institutions are common predictors of voter turnout. Most research in this field focuses on cross-country comparisons of voting systems, like the impact of compulsory voting or registration systems. Fewer efforts have been devoted to understand the role of local institutions and their impact on...

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Incentive Schemes for Local Government : Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England

Lockwood, Ben - 2011

This paper studies Comprehensive Performance Assessment, an explicit incentive scheme for local government in England. Motivated by a simple theoretical political agency model, we predict that CPA should increase service quality and local taxation, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency...

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Incentive schemes for local government : theory and evidence from comprehensive performance assessment in England

Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco - 2011

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Public Finance Behavior of the Spanish Regions : An Analysis Based on Fiscal Reaction Functions

Ricci-Risquete, Alejandro - 2018

The need to be compliant with the fiscal frameworks of the European Union and Spain has generated asymmetric fiscal behavior across the Spanish government tiers regarding the distribution of the needed fiscal efforts to pursue public finance sustainability and macroeconomic stability in the...

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Firm behaviour and public infrastructure: the case of Hungary

Békés, Gábor; Murakozy, Balazs - 2005

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What differences can performance ratings make? : difference-in-difference estimates of impact on local government responsiveness in the Philippines

Capuno, Joseph J.; Garcia, Maria Melody S. - 2009

In many countries that have decentralized, improving the accountability of local officials is increasingly emphasized to make them more responsive to their constituents' needs. This paper provides evidence that the public announcement of performance ratings can induce local governments to become...

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