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Fiscal decentralization and efficiency of public services delivery by local governments in Ghana
Otoo, Isaac; Danquah, Michael - 2021
In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and … investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … MMDAs' internally generated funds as a share of their total revenue has a positive influence on the efficiency of MMDAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012545693
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Local Public Finances and Municipal Reform in Finland
André, Christophe; García, Clara - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
Finnish municipalities enjoy ample fiscal autonomy and provide or arrange the provision of a large share of public services. In recent years, their spending and debt has been increasing steadily, especially because of population ageing and increases in the cost of health care and social...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276871
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Making Federalism Work in Italy
Bibbee, Alexandra - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
levels – and conversely, how much regional differentiation of services it will tolerate in pursuit of higher efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046053
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Decentralization and local government performance improving public service provision in Bolivia
Faguet, Jean-Paul - In: REVISTA DE ECONOMÍA DEL ROSARIO (2000)
) increased the allocative efficiency of the bolivian public sector, (ii) led to greater stability in cross-sectoral public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005768253
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DECENTRALIZATION AND EFFIENCY IN SPANISH LOCAL GOVERMENT
Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Prior, Diego; Balaguer-Coll, … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2006
This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of competencies among Spanish local … municipalities were conferred on more competencies. In addition, the likely efficiency gains from enhanceddecentralization increase …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005812818
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Devolution dynamics of Spanish local government
Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Jiménez, Diego Prior; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2010
based on linearprogramming approaches for efficiency measurement. We provide an application to Spanishmunicipalities, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602625
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La spesa sanitaria Ssn in Italia e nel Lazio. Ricostruzione con la metodologia Ecofin-Ocse, 1990 - oggi
SALERNO, Nicola Carmine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
Ecofin and Oecd methodology is used to reconstruct the historical evolution of public current health care expenditure for Italy and Lazio (an Italian Region). The reconstructed evolutions allow to detect what have been the per-capita expenditures per age brackets in absolute values (Euro) in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108541
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Property Tax Competition: A Quantitative Assessment
Borck, Rainald; Oshiro, Jun; Sato, Yasuhiro - 2022
We develop a model of property taxation and characterize equilibria under three alternative taxation regimes often used in the public finance literature: decentralized taxation, centralized taxation, and "rent seeking" regimes. We show that decentralized taxation results in inefficiently high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470261
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Property tax competition : a quantitative assessment
Borck, Rainald; Oshiro, Jun; Satō, Yasuhiro - 2022
We develop a model of property taxation and characterize equilibria under three alternative taxation regimes often used in the public finance literature: decentralized taxation, centralized taxation, and "rent seeking" regimes. We show that decentralized taxation results in inefficiently high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411718
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Elections and government efficiency
Dorn, Florian - 2021
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 efficiency by using OLS fixed effects, event study, and instrumental … variable estimations in a large balanced panel of around 2,000 municipalities in the German state of Bavaria. Cost efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012793235