Public Sector Efficiency and Political Culture

Giordano, Raffaela; Tommasino, Pietro

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“…have proposed a set of composite indicators of public sector performance, defined as the outcome in relation to the resources employed. In the healthcare sector, the infant mortality rate and life expectancy at birth are often used as the output indicators [Giordano and Tommasino, 2011]. Most studies conclude that public spending could be much smaller and, assuming that the output remains constant, more efficient than today [e.g.…”

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Problems of Quantifying Public Goods in the Healthcare Sector

Czyżewski¹,

Hnatyszyn-Dzikowska²,

Polcyn³

2016

Gospodarka Narodowa

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A market system does not automatically lead to an optimum allocation of public goods. Market-based exchange will always lead to a deficit of a public good compared with the socially optimal level. We argue that public goods in each sector of the economy constitute an isomorphic, socioeconomic system that is not a "black box." Thus, in order to determine the deficit of public goods, it is first necessary to investigate the available quantities versus the quality of those goods, because their performance is not only a function of public spending. There is no generally accepted methodology for doing this and there are no universal methods for quantifying public goods. The aim of this work is to develop a universal methodology for the quantification of public goods in ordinal categories, taking into account both the amount and quality of a good and budgetary valuing. In the empirical part, the authors identify various models (assets structures) of healthcare financing, using a set of OECD countries as an example. The authors also investigate to what extent these models influence the value of public goods in that sector. Composite measures have been computed for both the amount and quality of public goods. Subsequently, an agglomerative cluster analysis and a multifactorial analysis of variance are performed. Although the studied systems are diverse and reflect different social choices, the analyses show that the effectiveness of a healthcare system depends not only on the level of public financing, but also on its structure.

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Problems of Quantifying Public Goods in the Healthcare Sector

Czyżewski¹,

Hnatyszyn-Dzikowska²,

Polcyn³

2016

Gospodarka Narodowa

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“…44 Indeed, especially during these years, Spain had to finance continuous military activities and its bureaucracy is often described as geared mainly for tax collection. 45 Some descriptive analysis offers additional hints. identify the geographical location of these dominations.…”

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“…On this see also Sella and Capra (1984). 45 During Philip II's reign (1556-1598) that leads Spain into the final phase of the Italian Wars and ended with the Treaty of Cateau-Cambresis, Spain was at peace for only six months. See Drelichman and Voth (2011).…”

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“…62 Similar evidence on a regional Italian sample has been found in Tabellini 61 Results with additional controls are not included here. The same variable has been used in Mauro and Pigliaru (2011) and Giordano and Tommasino (2011). 62 On this see Knack (2002) and Tabellini (2008) that both find culture to be strongly correlated with the functioning of government institutions across U.S. States (the former) and in a cross-country sample (the latter).…”

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Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance

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Sideri

2015

European Journal of Political Economy

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. www.econstor.eu The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn is a local and virtual international research center and a place of communication between science, politics and business. IZA is an independent nonprofit organization supported by Deutsche Post Foundation. The center is associated with the University of Bonn and offers a stimulating research environment through its international network, workshops and conferences, data service, project support, research visits and doctoral program. IZA engages in (i) original and internationally competitive research in all fields of labor economics, (ii) development of policy concepts, and (iii) dissemination of research results and concepts to the interested public. Terms of use: Documents in D I S C U S S I O N P A P E R S E R I E SIZA Discussion Papers often represent preliminary work and are circulated to encourage discussion. Citation of such a paper should account for its provisional character. A revised version may be available directly from the author. We study the connection between economic performance and the quality of government institutions for the sample of 103 Italian NUTS3 regions, including new measures of institutional performance calculated using data on the provision of different areas of public services. In order to address likely endogeneity problems, we use the histories of the different foreign dominations that ruled Italian regions between the 16th and 17th century and over seven hundred years before the creation of the unified Italian State. Our results suggest that past historical institutions play a significant role on the current public administration quality and show that the latter makes a difference to the economic performance of regions. Overall, our analysis confirms that the quality of institutions matters for development, and that history can be used to find suitable instruments.JEL Classification: O11, O43, C26

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“…When studies related to the efficiency of municipalitiesare examined, evidence indicates that DEA is more frequently used in identifying efficiency (Kloot, 1999;Poister and Streib, 1999;Prieto and Zofio, 2001;Çağlar, 2003;Woodbury and Dollery, 2004;Sousa and Stosic, 2005;Doğan, 2006;Loikkanen andSusiluoto, Yıl:8 Sayı:15, Yaz 2015 ISSN 1307-9832 2006; Balaguer-Coll et al, 2007;Afonso and Fernandes, 2008;Nijkamp and Suzuki, 2009;Boetti et al, 2009, Kalb, 2010aKalb et al, 2012, Giordano andTommasino, 2011;Storto, 2013). However, no studies have been undertaken in which efficient units are sequenced according to their performances and these efficiencies are examined within themselves.…”

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Financial Efficiency Analysis of Metropolitan Municipalities With Integrated Dea and Gra: The Case of Turkey

Ertuğ¹,

Girginer²

2015

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Bu çalışmanın amacı Türkiye'deki büyükşehir belediyelerinin mali hizmetlerdeki etkinliklerini belirleyerek performanslarına göre sıralamaktır. Öncelikle 14 büyükşehir belediyesinin mali hizmetlerindeki etkinlikleri üç girdi ve üç çıktı içeren bir VZA (Veri Zarflama Analizi) modeli ile belirlenmiştir. VZA, etkin olmayan karar verme birimlerine ilişkin performans iyileştirme bulguları ortaya koysa da, etkin karar verme birimleri için herhangi bir sıralama sağlayamamaktadır. Bu nedenle, VZA ile mali hizmetlerde etkin olarak belirlenen büyükşehir belediyeleri GĠA (Gri Ġlişkisel Analiz) ile sıralanmışlardır. Böylelikle mali hizmetlerini başarılı bir şekilde yürüten belediyelerin kendi aralarında sıralanması sağlanmıştır. Bunun yanı sıra etkin belediyelerin performanslarına etki eden faktörler de GĠA ile belirlenebilmiştir. VZA ve mali hizmetlerinde etkin olan belediyelere

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Public Sector Efficiency and Political Culture

Cited by 52 publications

References 123 publications

Problems of Quantifying Public Goods in the Healthcare Sector

Problems of Quantifying Public Goods in the Healthcare Sector

Past dominations, current institutions and the Italian regional economic performance

Financial Efficiency Analysis of Metropolitan Municipalities With Integrated Dea and Gra: The Case of Turkey

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