The Efficiency of EU Public Administration in Helping Firms Grow

Friesenbichler, Klaus S.; Fritz, Oliver; Hölzl, Werner; Misch, Florian; Streicher, Gerhard; Yeter, Mustafa

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“…More efficient competition policies at the country level lower transaction costs and thereby increase firm dynamics. This mechanism has been linked to more firm and employment growth, which justifies market-oriented reforms (Friesenbichler et al, 2014b). Firm-level evidence shows that pro-competitive policies due to EU accession led to less concentrated market structures, as well as greater allocative efficiency (Friesenbichler, 2014).…”

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Exporting the Competition Policy Regime of the European Union: Success or Failure? Empirical Evidence for Acceding Countries

Böheim

Friesenbichler

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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This paper studies the role of a country's EU membership status as an explanatory factor of regulatory quality. It argues that accession to the European Union improves the quality of regulation via the implementation of pro‐competitive policies embedded in the Community Acquis. We assess this conjecture empirically for the (former) transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe, using Member States as well as developing and developed countries in Europe and Central Asia as a control group. The data used is a macro‐economic panel of 48 countries covering six three‐year periods between 1995 and 2012. We find that EU accession positively affected the quality of competition policies over and above an overall trend towards more market‐oriented policies. The improvement in competition policies was not reversed in a single country of the sample, documenting the strong and sustainable transformative power of the EU. The findings are robust when controlling for endogeneity issues.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exporting the Competition Policy Regime of the European Union: Success or Failure? Empirical Evidence for Acceding Countries

Böheim

Friesenbichler

2015

J of Common Market Studies

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“…To sum up, given the hypotheses on the external benefits for the business sector found in the public e‐services literature, and by extending the conceptual contribution of Friesenbichler et al. (2014, ch. 1), we formulate our theoretical framework, as in Figure 1.…”

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“…Among the hypotheses put forward on the external effects of the PA's ICT adoption, the conceptual framework of Friesenbichler et al. (2014) conjectures an impact on business demography. These authors work on EU countries and explore the institutional channels linking the digitalization and the efficiency of the PA with firm growth.…”

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ICT diffusion in public administrations and business dynamics: Evidence from Italian municipalities

Matteucci

Santolini

Fabio

2022

Ann Public Coop Econ

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Public administrations have been adopting information and communication technologies (ICT) to transform their internal organization and provide better public services to citizens and firms. However, the external benefits, despite being deemed relevant, have been empirically overlooked. We first explore the relation between ICT diffusion in public administrations and business demography at the municipal level by studying the Italian context. Our results show that ICT diffusion in the PA contributes to significantly reducing the death rate of firms and boosting their turnover rate. The adoption of ICT in the PA also exerts a positive impact on the firm birth rate, although it is not statistically significant. These results shed light on the importance of promoting e‐government and framing coherent digital agendas as public instruments for supporting entrepreneurship and regional economic development.

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“…A review of research on the determinants of companies' size confirms that it significantly depends on the quality of the tax system (Friesenbichler et al, 2014). The high percentage of micro-enterprises in countries with complicated taxes is not only the result of the choice made by entrepreneurs to reduce interactions with the tax administration.…”

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Directions for the Reconstruction of the Tax System in Poland – a Growth‑Enhancing Proposal

Karnowski

Rzońca

2021

Folia Oeconomica

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The paper aims to present directions for the growth‑enhancing reconstruction of the tax system in Poland. It presents a diagnosis of the main strengths and weaknesses of that system. Based on this diagnosis and a review of the literature, the authors propose a package of recommendations whose introduction would be conducive to economic growth. The recommendations include: shifting the burden of taxation from income, in particular low labour income, to consumption; exempting low earners from a part of social security contributions; the introduction of the possibility for local governments to increase the PIT‑free allowance above the centrally set base amount; the unification of the basis for the PIT, National Health Fund and Social Insurance Institution contributions; the elimination of differences in contributions for different types of contracts on the basis of which work is performed; the extension of one‑off amortisation to all machine investments; and the elimination of sectoral taxes.

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The Efficiency of EU Public Administration in Helping Firms Grow

Cited by 5 publications

References 43 publications

Exporting the Competition Policy Regime of the European Union: Success or Failure? Empirical Evidence for Acceding Countries

Exporting the Competition Policy Regime of the European Union: Success or Failure? Empirical Evidence for Acceding Countries

ICT diffusion in public administrations and business dynamics: Evidence from Italian municipalities

Directions for the Reconstruction of the Tax System in Poland – a Growth‑Enhancing Proposal

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