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Infrastructure, institutions and identity : determinants of regional development : empirical evidence from Germany
Gäbler, Stefanie - 2020
Stefanie Gäbler prepared this study while she was working at the ifo Center for Public Finance and Political Economy. The study was completed in March 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It consists of six distinct empirical essays...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and budget shortfalls in the local governments in Slovakia
Cajkova, Andrea; Butoracová Šindleryová, Ivana; … - In: Scientific papers of the University of Pardubice 29 (2021) 1, pp. 1-15
The study focuses on budget policy implementation at the level of local governments in Slovakia in connection with the COVID-19 pandemic. The research problem focuses on identifying shortfalls in initially planned funds to local government budgets caused by the COVID-19 crisis and the potential...
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Advancing Green Purchasing in Spanish Municipalities
Ortega Carrasco, Pablo; Ferrón-Vílchez, Vera; Allur, E; … - 2022
, waste management and sustainability-related positions in South Korean municipalities. The survey generated 41 individual …
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Advancing Green Purchasing in Japanese Municipalities
Darnall, Nicole; Arimura, Toshi H.; Miyamoto, Takuro; … - 2022
The Japanese Ministry of Environment is promoting green purchasing policies across all levels of Japanese government. A primary reason is that green purchasing policies have the potential to significantly reduce carbon impacts across the globe and can help Japan achieve its carbon emissions...
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Explanatory factors of local waste management in Morocco : a territorial and organizational approach
Sadik, Mohammed; Chnigri, Yousra; Slimani, Hamid - In: Business, mangagement and economics engineering : BMEE 21 (2023) 1, pp. 140-168
Purpose - The aim of this article is to specify the determining factors behind the decision to adopt either an internal or external means of the household waste management service in Moroccan local authorities (LAs), particularly in the "communes". Research methodology - The methodology applied...
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Quality of Performance Information for Public Accountability in Estonian Local Governments
Kenk, Karina - 2017
local governments in promoting public accountability to its stakeholders using the PDCA cycle model. This study primarily … disclosed to the general public, therefore also resulting in limited public accountability and poor governance arrangements …
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A simple four quadrants model to monitor the performance of local governments
Ballanti, Danilo; Dispotico, Roberto; Porcelli, Francesco; … - 2014
This paper, conducted as part of the research activities of SOSE S.p.A., develops a simple and innovative model to evaluate the performance of local government in the provision of local public services. The model employs a reduced set of information and fewer assumptions than traditional...
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Sustainability Policy Objectives, Centralized Decision Making, and Efficiency in Public Procurement Processes in U.S. Local Governments
Stritch, Justin - 2020
Some U.S. local governments are leveraging public procurement to meet their sustainability goals. However, does the … simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives potentially slow down the speed of procurement processes? We suggest … that the simultaneous pursuit of multiple sustainability objectives through procurement is related to decision making speed …
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Government Audits
Cuneo, Martina; Leder-Luis, Jetson; Vannutelli, Silvia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Audits are a common mechanism used by governments to monitor public spending. In this paper, we discuss the effectiveness of auditing with theory and empirics. In our model, the value of audits depends on both the underlying presence of abuse and the government's ability to observe it and...
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E-procurement System Adoption in Local Governments : the Role of Procurement Complexity and Organizational Structure
Chen, Yifan; Bretschneider, Stuart; Stritch, Justin; … - 2022
The article examines how local governments’ procurement complexity and structure interact to influence e-procurement adoption. Drawing on the survey data of over 400 cities, we find that a centralized structure enhances the likelihood that local governments adopt an e-procurement system to...
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