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Provision of public goods in a federalist country: Tiebout competition, fiscal equalization, and incentives for efficiency in Switzerland

Widmer, Philippe; Zweifel, Peter - 2008

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities (administration, public safety, education, culture and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315507

Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland

Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the years 2000 to 2004. Aggregate output performance indicators for four local government activities (administration, education, health, and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316907

Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power

Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008

In their role as agenda setters and implementers of political decisions, bureaucrats potentially have the power to influence decisions in their own favor. It is however difficult to empirically test whether bureaucrats actually are involved in such actions. In this paper we suggest and apply a...

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Political drivers of and barriers to Public-Private Partnerships: The role of political involvement

Gawel, Erik - 2011

The application and design of public-private partnerships between the extremes of purely public or purely private task fulfilment in public services is, in practice, subject to political processes. Decisions about PPPs (realisation, arrangement) are taken in the political arena and are therefore...

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Transparency of human resource policy

Mellander, Erik - 2014

The scope of public human resource policy is outlined. Motivation for the need of transparency in this policy is provided in terms of informational asymmetries, human capital externalities, and long planning horizons. Transparency is defined both along a time dimension - ex ante and ex post -...

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Coordination Incentives, Performance Measurement, and Resource Allocation in Public Sector Organizations

Dietrichson, Jens - 2013

Why are coordination problems common when public sector organizations share responsibilities, and what can be done to mitigate such problems? This paper uses a multi-task principal-agent model to examine two related reasons: the incentives to coordinate resource allocation and the difficulties...

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Intergovernmental grants and bureaucratic power

Dahlberg, Matz; Lundqvist, Heléne; Mörk, Eva - 2008

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Quantifying inefficiency in incomplete asset markets

Tirelli, Mario; Turner, Sergio - 2007

It is known that the incompleteness of asset markets causes inefficiency in almost every equilibrium. Yet unexplored is the ”size” of this inefficiency. The size of a Pareto improvement is the total willingness to pay for it, out of current consumption. Inefficiency is the maximum size of...

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Elitism in higher education and inequality: Why are the Nordic countries so special?

Brezis, Elise S. - 2018

This paper shows that countries with high levels of "elitism" in higher-education are the countries displaying high … levels of inequality. In other words, a higher level of "elitism", i.e., large gap in quality of universities, and tight … higher Gini index. This paper shows that the Nordic countries display lower elitism in higher education as well as lower …

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Sustainability assessment of the public interventions supported by the ReSTART project in the CITI4GREEN framework

Cavalli, Laura; Alibegovic, Mia; Vaccari, Davide; … - 2022

As part of the CITI4GREEN project, this contribution analyzes the public interventions contained in Re-START “Territorial Resilience of the Central Apennines Earthquake Reconstruction” assessing their impacts on the sustainability guidelines posed by the United Nations through the...

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