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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...

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Public sector accounting policy reform in the Czech Republic : experience from local governments (pilot)

Hrůza, Filip; Valouch, Petr - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 11 (2016) 4, pp. 17-38

The Czech Republic has recently introduced and implemented public sector accounting reform. The aim of the reform was …, intended to bring public sector accounting and public financial management closer to private sector practices that, from their … point of view, fulfil the reform goals previously mentioned. After a few years of functioning in this new accounting …

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Does Data Disclosure Improve Local Government Performance? Evidence from Italian Municipalities

Lockwood, Ben; Porcelli, Francesco; Redoano, Michela; … - 2022

We exploit the introduction of an open data online platform - part of a transparency program initiated by the Italian Government in late 2014 - as a natural experiment to analyse the effect of data disclosure on mayors' expenditure and public good provision. First, we analyse the effect of the...

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Forms of Participatory Democracy: An Analytical Framework Based on the Experiences of Bolivia, Brazil and Colombia

Forero, Clemente; Sepúlveda, Carlos Eduardo - UNIVERSIDAD DEL ROSARIO - 2004

Based on the experiences of Colombia, Brazil and Bolivia, the paper proposes a general analytical framework for participatory mechanisms. The analysis is oriented to detect the incentives in each system and the ethics and behavior sustaining them. It investigates about the sustainability of...

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Elected or appointed? : how the nomination scheme of the city manager influences the effects of government fragmentation ; conference paper

Garmann, Sebastian - 2013 - This version: February 11, 2013

Empirical work on the causal effect of government fragmentation finds diversified results. This might be explained by the fact that studies typically are settled in different institutional environments. To assess in how far the political system might shape the effects of fragmentation, this...

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The political economy of municipal amalgamation : evidence of common pool effects and local public debt

Feld, Lars P.; Fritz, Benedikt - 2015

This paper investigates the political economy of after merger effects of the large scale municipal amalgamations in the German state of Baden-W¨urttemberg in the early 1970s. By exploiting the huge variance in the amalgamation process in terms of number of participating municipalities,...

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The political economy of municipal amalgamation : evidence of common pool effects and local public debt

Fritz, Benedikt; Feld, Lars P. - 2015

This paper investigates the political economy of after merger effects of the large scale municipal amalgamations in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in the early 1970s. By exploiting the huge variance in the amalgamation process in terms of number of participating municipalities,...

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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...

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The Political Economy of Municipal Amalgamation - Evidence of Common Pool Effects and Local Public Debt

Fritz, Benedikt - 2016

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