This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data …

economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate … production units. The present paper investigates the effects of taxation on production efficiency, accounting for the … effect of this "tax induced organizational change" on production efficiency ultimately depends on the characteristics of the …

The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is … background) as outputs. The analysis of the determinants of efficiency indicates that a high level of municipal revenue, a high … efficiency. The negative effects of the share of socialists and party fragmentation seem to reflect both higher resource use and …

different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students … countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse …

disposal a capital tax and an environmental standard. Petchey (2015) claims that the efficiency result of Oates and Schwab can … be extended to a large price-influencing jurisdiction. In the present note we show that the concept of Pareto efficiency …

restore the efficiency of equilibria …

This paper studies the difference between public production and public finance of public goods in a dynamic general … their costs. When the model is calibrated to match fiscal data from the UK economy, the main result is that, ceteris paribus …, a switch from public production to public finance can have substantial aggregate and distributional implications. Public …

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in …

We study upstream horizontal mergers and their potential efficiency gains. We show that an upstream horizontal merger … can give rise to two efficiency-enhancing effects when firms trade through two-part tariffs. It increases R&D investments … efficiency gains can overcome its anti-competitive effects in terms of welfare, we show that when firms merge usually both of the …

This paper investigates the welfare costs of unilateral versus internationally coordinated emission permit policies in … country, the domestic welfare costs of a unilateral domestic permit policy are larger than of an internationally coordinated … the post-Kyoto era since bearing the costs of foreign actionism is cheaper, in terms of welfare, than agreeing on …