The Efficiency of Local Public-Service Production
The Effect of Political Institutions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 24045447 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Peter Bönisch, Peter Haug |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 74 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 260-291 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | FinanzArchiv (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0015-2218 • E-ISSN: 1614-0974 |
| Publisher | Mohr Siebeck (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1628/fa-2018-0008 |
| OpenAlex | W2807186947 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Reforms replacing municipal cooperations by centralized municipalities often aim at increasing municipal efficiency. Empirical evidence supporting this aim, however, is ambiguous. Our paper analyzes the effect of institutions on municipal efficiency. In particular, we distinguish two archetypal institutional settings, a centralized and a confederal one, and argue that bureaucrats in a centralized setting are able to increase the fiscal residual. Our empirical test case is the German federal state of Saxony-Anhalt. We test the effect of the institutional setup using the bootstrap approach suggested by Simar and Wilson (2007), concluding that a decentralized institutional setting improves the efficiency of municipal production.
Business · Economics · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Production (economics) · Public service · Service (business) · Corporate Taxation and Avoidance · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Law · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Marketing · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2024 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |