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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 transportation) are used to measure technical and scale efficiency and to derive DEA scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009743175
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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
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010315507
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Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the cantons of Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K.; Elias, George; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 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 transportation) are used to measure technical and scale efficiency and to derive DEA scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817292
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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
competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout … Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003892461
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Public Good Provision in a Federalist Country: Tiebout Competition, Fiscal Equalization, and Incentives for Efficiency in Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K.; Zweifel, Peter - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
jurisdictions applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Second, it relates ef- ficiency scores to a fiscal equalization scheme … designed to mitigate the negative consequences of Tiebout competition. The data come from the 26 cantons of Switzerland (2000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005756622
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Improving Efficiency Through Consolidation of Jurisdictions? Evidence from the Cantons of Switzerland
Widmer, Philippe K. - 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 transportation) are used to measure technical and scale efficiency and to derive DEA scores …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013103910
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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions : empirical studies in public economics and political economy
Dorn, Florian - 2021
Florian Dorn erstellte diesen Beitrag während seines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität München (LMU). Die Studie wurde im September 2020 abgeschlossen und von der Fakultät für Volkswirtschaftslehre als Dissertation angenommen. Die Dissertation trägt zur Empirie der Ökonomie des...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012807266
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Some determinants of intermediate local governments‘ spending efficiency : the case of French départements
Nieswand, Maria; Seifert, Stefan - 2011
Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Results indicate significant room for improvements and detect spending inefficiencies averaging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009427846
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Some determinants of intermediate local governments' spending efficiency: The case of French départements
Nieswand, Maria; Seifert, Stefan - 2011
Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Results indicate significant room for improvements and detect spending inefficiencies averaging …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286294
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How does depreciations management affect subsequent fiscal performance? : the case of the Swiss cantons
Clémenceau, Maxime; Soguel, Nils - In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics 154 (2018) 1, pp. 1-15
Creative accounting allows governments and, more particularly, finance ministers to somehow manage financial reports to achieve specific and possibly self-interested goals. It is usually used to hide deficits. It sometimes also helps to present financial performance as being more worrisome than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011963006