What Drives Intermediate Local Governments’ Spending Efficiency
The Case of French Départements
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6303397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stefan Seifert (0000-0002-5139-9096, German Institute for Economic Research, corresponding author), Maria Nieswand (0000-0001-6836-0764) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 766-790 |
| Publication date | 2014-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Local Government Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0300-3930 • E-ISSN: 1743-9388 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/03003930.2013.812962 |
| OpenAlex | W2160383653 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 37 |
The restructuring of the allocation of governmental competencies in France has increased the importance of subnational governments by transferring additional tasks. We analyse the efficiency of public spending on the intermediate government level for the 96 départements in metropolitan France in 2008. Spending efficiency is measured using Data Envelopment Analysis. Results indicate significant room for improvement and we detect an average spending inefficiency of 12%. To explain efficiency, a bootstrapped truncated regression is applied. The second-stage regression shows that efficiency is also determined by exogenous factors and identifies the distance to the national capital, inhabitants’ income and the share of inhabitants older than 65 as significant determinants of efficiency
Capital expenditure · Data envelopment analysis · Demographic economics · Economics · Efficiency · Estimator · Geography · Government (linguistics · Government spending · Inefficiency · Local government · Market economy · Metropolitan area · Microeconomics · Political science · Public economics · Public spending · Restructuring · Statistics · Efficiency Analysis Using DEA · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Public Administration · Finance
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| Citations per year | 0.4 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |