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Looking across borders: a test of spatial policy interdependence using local government efficiency ratings
Geys, Benny - 2006
governments’ efficiency ratings for the year 2000 (which relate tax revenues to the quantity of locally provided public goods), we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010307047
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Local government efficiency: Evidence from the Czech municipalities
Šťastná, Lenka; Gregor, Martin - 2011
We measure cost efficiency of 202 Czech municipalities of extended scope in period 2003-2008. The study is the first … application of overall efficiency measurement of the local governments in the new EU member states, and the second in post …-communist countries. We measure government efficiency through established quantitative and qualitative indicators of the provision of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322305
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Are more resources always the answer? A supply and demand analysis for public health services in Brazilian municipalities
Rocha, Fabiana; Duarte, Janete; de Oliveira, Plínio Portela - In: EconomiA 18 (2017) 1, pp. 98-116
necessary. If the efficiency scores (supply side) indicate that local governments can simply “save” resources to make up for the … manage their expenditures. Since municipalities in Brazil are very heterogeneous, we estimate their efficiency using the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011858479
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Ermittlung von aufgabenbezogenen Kostenremanenzen im Rahmen des kommunalen Finanzausgleichs in Sachsen-Anhalt
Dobroschke, Stephan; Gutsche, Jens-Martin; Thöne, Michael - 2014
Mit Urteil vom 9. Oktober 2012 hat das Verfassungsgericht des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt dessen kommunalen Finanzausgleich dahingehend beanstandet, dass bei Bevölkerungsrückgang ungeprüft ein proportionaler Rückgang kommunaler Aufgaben und Ausgabenlasten unterstellt wurde. Der Gesetzgeber wurde...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012290131
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Essays on the Behavior of Firms and Politicians
Riem, Marina - 2017
This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011698363
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Borders as boundaries to fiscal policy interactions? An empirical analysis of politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms
Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - 2012
Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. However, the theoretical spatial statistics literature shows that biased estimates might...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311081
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The effects of public spending composition on firm productivity
Kneller, Richard; Misch, Florian - 2013
This paper exploits the unique institutional features of South Africa to estimate the impact of provincial public spending on health, education and transport on firm productivity. Our identification strategy is based on within industry-province differences between firms of the effects of public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010311773
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Kommunale Kooperation und Effizienz: Das Beispiel der hessischen Abwasserentsorgung
Blaeschke, F.; Haug, Peter - In: Wirtschaft im Wandel 20 (2014) 4, pp. 61-64
Angesichts der teilweise prekären Finanzlage deutscher Kommunen gelten freiwillige Kooperationen im Kommunalbereich als mögliche Alternative, z. B. zu politisch heiklen Gebietsreformen, um Kostenersparnisse zu realisieren. Die Ergebnisse einer Effizienzstudie des IWH (in Kooperation mit der...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011502148
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Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms : an empirical analysis of reference points near a border
Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - 2011 - This version: March 2011
Studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) public policies usually concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single analysed region, and disregard possible extra-regional effects. This paper evaluates the validity of such restriction by studying German local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008905492
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Local government efficiency : evidence from the Czech municipalities
Šťastná, Lenka; Gregor, Martin - 2011
We measure cost efficiency of 202 Czech municipalities of extended scope in period 2003-2008. The study is the first … application of overall efficiency measurement of the local governments in the new EU member states, and the second in post …-communist countries. We measure government efficiency through established quantitative and qualitative indicators of the provision of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009006688