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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 - Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) - 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...

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The effects of public spending composition on firm productivity

Kneller, Richard; Misch, Florian - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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...

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ON THE DETERMINANTS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE: A TWO-STAGE NONPARAMETRIC APPROACH

Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Prior, Diego; Balaguer-Coll, … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2004

This article analyzes the efficiency of Comunitat Valenciana (Spain) local governments and their main explanatory … variables. The analysis is performed in two stages. Firstly, efficiency is measured via (nonparametric) activity analysis … primarily overall cost, technical, or allocative. The second stage identifies some critical determinants of efficiency, focusing …

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On the optimal size of local jurisdictions: new evidence from Italian provinces

Barone, Guglielmo - Banca d'Italia - 2011

This paper examines the creation of some new provinces in Italy in the 1990s to assess whether the reduction in the size of the local jurisdiction led to benefits in terms of local development, human capital and road quality, which are three public goods provided by the Italian provinces in...

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Looking across borders: a test of spatial policy interdependence using local government efficiency ratings

Geys, Benny - Abteilung "Marktprozesse und Steuerung", … - 2006

governments’ efficiency ratings for the year 2000 (which relate tax revenues to the quantity of locally provided public goods), we …

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Cost efficiency of Belgian local governments: A comparative analysis of FDH, DEA and econometric approaches

DE BORGER, Bruno; KERSTENS, Kristiaan - Faculteit Toegepaste Economische Wetenschappen, … - 1994

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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 …

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Decentralization and Public Works Procurement in Italy

Guccio, Calogero; Pignataro, Giacomo; Rizzo, Ilde - 2021

This paper focuses on the relationship between efficiency of infrastructure provision and the institutional … number of procurers mainly of small size. The efficiency is assessed as the capacity to execute the public work within the … works for roads and highways and it is carried out with nonparametric frontier approaches. The determinants of efficiency …

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Tax Morale and Public Spending Inefficiency

Barone, Guglielmo - 2010

Tax evasion is a widespread phenomenon and encouraging tax compliance is an important and much debated policy issue. Many studies have shown that tax cheating has to be attributed to a considerable extent to the tax morale of taxpayers. The aim of the present paper is to shed light on the...

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Budget spillovers in a metropolitan area: typology and empirical evidence

Solé-Ollé, Albert - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2001

The paper presents a model for measuring spillovers resulting from local expenditure policies. We identify and test for three different types of budget spillovers: (i) benefit spillovers, derived from the production of local public goods, (ii) externalities in crowding, derived from the crowding...

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