Some Determinants of Intermediate Local Governments' Spending Efficiency: The Case of French Départements

Nieswand, Maria; Seifert, Stefan

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“…• transfers from the central government have a negative impact on municipal efficiency (De Borger et al, 1994;De Borger & Kerstens, 1996;Athanassopoulos & Triantis, 1998;Balaguer-Coll et al, 2002;Lokkainen & Susiluoto, 2004;Balaguer-Coll et al, 2007;Kalb, 2010;Stastna & Gregor, 2010); • the typology of municipalities (tourism, commercial activities) has an impact on municipal efficiency (Gimenez & Prior, 2007;Kalb, 2010); • outsourcing and private sector involvement can make municipalities more efficient (Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2005;Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2006;Mahabil, 2011); • local election turnout has a positive impact on municipal efficiency (Stastna & Gregor, 2010;Geys et al, 2010); • the mayor's education and experience have a positive impact on municipal efficiency (Loikkanen et al, 2011;Mahabil, 2011); • distance from a region/country to centres/capital in general have a negative impact on municipal efficiency (Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2005;Afonso & Fernandes, 2005;Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2006;Stastna & Gregor, 2010;Nieswand & Seiferd, 2011;Loikkanen et al, 2011); • population density generally has a positive effect on municipal efficiency (De Borger & Kerstens, 1996;Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2005;Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2006;Kalb, 2010;Nieswand & Seiferd, 2011;Loikkanen et al, 2011); • unemployment level in general has a negative effect on municipal efficiency (Loikkanen & Susil...…”

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“…The biggest cities showed fairly varying performances. Nieswand and Seiferd (2011) indicate in their research significant room for improvement and detect spending inefficiencies averaging between 10 and 22% in French municipalities, depending on model specifications.…”

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“…That is why the Kernel Graphical Estimate of Joint Density Functions (Kernel estimation) is used in the second-stage estimation as well as to explain the determinants of the DEA and FDH efficiency scores (Balaguer-Coll et al, 2007). A bootstrap is also used for statistical inference in the second-stage estimation (Stastna & Gregor, 2010;Nieswand & Seiferd, 2011) or even OLS (Loikkanen, Susiluoto & Funk, 2011;Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2005) after the DEA and FDH efficiency scores have been estimated.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The geographical distance from the capital and regional centres has a negative effect because of the emigration of skilled workers leaving municipalities with less educated and skilled citizens living there, thus creating a negative effect on efficiency (Nieswand & Seiferd, 2011).…”

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“…Population density affects the cost of providing services and a higher density provides more efficiency (De Borger & Kerstens, 1996;Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2005;Loikkanen & Susiluoto, 2006;Kalb, 2010;Nieswand & Seiferd, 2011;Loikkanen et al, 2011). Thus, the effect of the cost advantage due to a regional concentration of services might outweigh the potential effect of an increase in property prices.…”

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Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery: Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter?

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2015

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Driven by the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA), decentralisation in Macedonia is a policy choice for spurring national cohesion rather than an economic instrument for the more efficient delivery of services. The OFA resulted in a new Macedonian Constitution with policies related to the decentralisation process and equitable representation of communities. This book aims first to estimate the spending efficiency of Macedonian municipalities in service delivery from their own resources and, second, to ascertain the determinants of that efficiency. The ethnic fragmentation of municipalities is taken into account as a possible determinant of efficiency, which represents a novelty in such types of studies. We employ the DEA-VRS, Kernel and SFA estimation techniques to control for the robustness of our estimates. Our findings show that on average Macedonian municipalities exhibit low efficiency in service delivery, although there are significant variations among municipalities. The ethnic fragmentation of municipalities together with the population density, own tax revenues and political affiliation of the mayor with the leading political coalition at the state level explain differences in their efficiencies. More fragmented municipalities tend to be less efficient when providing services to citizens. KEYWORDS:• fiscal decentralisation • cost efficiency • service delivery • ethnic fragmentation • non-parametric efficiency analysis • parametric efficiency analysis CORRESPONDENCE ADDRESS:

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Section: Input and Output Variables In The First Stage Of The Estimationmentioning

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Section: Determinants Of Efficiencymentioning

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Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part I

Narbón-Perpiñá

Witte

2017

Int Trans Operational Res

154

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The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive review of the existing literature on local governments' efficiency from a global point of view, covering all articles from 1990 to August 2016. This paper is the first of two. It covers the basic aspects related to local governments' efficiency measurement not taking into account the effect of environmental conditions. First, we show a detailed overview of the studies investigating public sector efficiency across various countries, comparing the data and samples employed, and the main results obtained. Second, we describe which techniques have been used for measuring efficiency in the context of local governments. Third, we summarize the inputs and outputs used. Finally, we discuss some operative directions and considerations for further research in the field.

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An Assessment of the Effect of Fiscal Decentralisation on Performance of County Governments in Kenya

Mbau

Iraya

Mwangi

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ESJ

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The paper focused on the analysis of the influence of fiscal decentralization (FD) on the performance of County governments in Kenya during the transitionary period from a central to a decentralised governance system (2013)(2014)(2015)(2016)(2017)(2018). The quest for fiscal decentralisation has taken center stage in the past three decades in many parts of the word including Latin America, Asian countries, Africa and throughout the formally planned economies. The study was prompted by conflicting findings from previous empirical studies in both developed and the developing countries. Three indicators of fiscal decentralisation were defined and used in the study. These are the ratio of county governments' funds received from the National Government and local revenue collections. The other is transfer grants, defined as both conditional and unconditional funds received from both national government and development partners. Multiple regression analysis and correlation analysis were used to estimate the parameters of the model. The study was descriptive and used panel data to offer a comprehensive profile of the key variables identified in the conceptual framework. The unit of analysis was the County government with all the 47 counties forming the population of study. The results reveal that 27.43% of variations in the performance of County Governments are explained by the variables in the model and that equitable share (UB) has the most significant influence. From the several tests applied, the prediction model was confirmed as appropriate.

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Some Determinants of Intermediate Local Governments' Spending Efficiency: The Case of French Départements

Cited by 5 publications

References 49 publications

Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery: Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter?

Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery: Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter?

Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part I

An Assessment of the Effect of Fiscal Decentralisation on Performance of County Governments in Kenya

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