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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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Tax morale and public spending inefficiency

Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - Banca d'Italia - 2009

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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The efficiency of refuse collection services in Spanish municipalities: do non-controllable variables matter?

Bosch, Núria; Pedraja, Francisco; Suárez-Pandiello, Javier - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2001

The aim of this article is to analyse the technical efficiency and cost-efficiency of the refuse collection services in …

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Expenditure spillovers and fiscal interactions: Empirical evidence from local governments in Spain

Ollé, Albert Solé - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2005

The paper presents a framework for measuring spillovers resulting from local expenditure policies. We identify and test for two different types of expenditure spillovers: (i) "benefit spillovers", arising from the provision of local public goods, and (ii) "crowding spillovers", arising from the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005612354

Politicians' opinions on rivals in the competition for firms: An empirical analysis of reference points near a border

Geys, Benny; Osterloh, Steffen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 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...

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Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities: a robust metafrontier approach

Ausina, Emili Tortosa; Jiménez, Diego Prior; … - Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (IVIE) - 2010

Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the productive efficiency of local governments in different … analysis in which the efficiency of municipalities is evaluated after splitting them into clusters according to various … results show that both output mix and, more especially, environmental conditions, should be controlled for, since efficiency …

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Marshallian Sources of Growth and Interdependent Location of Swedish Firms and Households

Sörensson, Robert - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2010

This thesis consists of three papers that examine Marshallian sources of growth and interdependent location of Swedish firms and households. Paper [I] examines the impact of static and dynamic knowledge externalities and their impact on Swedish market operating firms growth pattern between 1997...

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Local Government Efficiency: Evidence from the Czech Municipalities

Šastná, Lenka; Gregor, Martin - Institut ekonomických studií, Univerzita Karlova v Praze - 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 …

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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...

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Electoral Cycles in Active Labor Market Policies

Mechtel, Mario; Potrafke, Niklas - 2011

We examine how electoral motives influence active labor market policies that promote job-creation. Such policies reduce unemployment statistics. Using German state data for the period 1985 to 2004, we show that election-motivated politicians pushed job-promotion schemes before elections.

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