Search Results - subject_exact:"Local government expenditure"

Does accrual accounting make municipalities spend less?

Caiazza, Stefano; Fiordelisi, Franco; De Simone, Elina; … - 2026

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Are Philippine local governments spending enough on primary health care?

Ulep, Valerie Gilbert; Herrin, Alejandro N.; Sarne, … - 2026

We assessed whether health spending of local government units in the Philippines is sufficient to deliver mandated primary health care (PHC) services under a devolved system, how PHC spending varies with fiscal capacity, and whether increased intergovernmental transfers following the...

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The impact of independent local parties on spending : evidence from Dutch municipalities

Sebő, Marianna; Gradus, Raymond; Budding, Tjerk - 2026

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Time-varying us government spending anticipation in real time

Goemans, Pascal; Kruse-Becher, Robinson - 2025

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The grand (fiscal) illusion : property tax relief and education spending in North Dakota

Jackson, Jeremy J.; Nichols, Kole - 2026

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Scottish school spending, teachers and pupil numbers

Sibieta, Luke; Snape, Darcey - 2025

At just under £8 billion, spending on schools and childcare is the second-largest area of public service spending in Scotland, behind spending on health. While councils rather than the Scottish Government itself determine how much to spend on schools, they do so in the context of a funding and...

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Die Zusammensetzung der kommunalen Ausgaben in Deutschland : eine Betrachtung über 30 Jahre

Kauder, Björn - 2025 - Stand: September 2025

Die Lage der kommunalen Finanzen ist ein Dauerthema in der finanzpolitischen Debatte. Die Defizite der Kommunen sind am aktuellen Rand wieder angestiegen, ebenso wie der Investitionsrückstand. Häufig fokussiert die öffentliche Debatte auf die Einnahmenseite der Kommunen. Der vorliegende...

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Fiscal spillovers among Mexican municipalities: a spatial analysis

Moreno Jimenez, Alejandro - 2026

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Rethinking Municipal Finance

2025

The report provides a comprehensive analysis of Bulgaria's local public finances, focusing on key challenges faced by municipalities and potential reforms. The report's goal is to provide a better understanding of local fiscal capacity, the system of intergovernmental fiscal transfers, and...

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Fair Funding Review 2.0 : the impacts on council funding across England

Ogden, Kate; Phillips, David - 2025

The UK government is consulting on significant reforms to how funding from central government is allocated between English councils. From 2026-27, there will be a new system for allocating funding between councils, which will take account of new official assessments of councils' spending needs...

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Local education and social care in England, Scotland, and Wales : spending patterns, priorities, and prospects

Andrews, Rhys - 2025

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Fiscal resilience, fiscal sustainability and social infrastructure expenditure : the impact of social spending on fiscal health in Austrian local governments

Neuhuber, Tatjana; Getzner, Michael; Bröthaler, Johann - 2025

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Legislature size and council member diversity : evidence from Brazilian municipalities

Nascimento, Matheus; Schiavon, Laura de Carvalho - 2025

This paper examines the impact of marginal changes in municipal council size on the diversity of candidates and elected councilors in Brazil, focusing on age, gender, race, and educational attainment. Understanding how institutional changes affect representation is crucial for assessing the...

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Assessment of excessive municipal education spending

Bartkus, Algirdas - 2025

A tight budgetary situation in Lithuania forces the Government to seek savings, plan financial resources carefully, and monitor their use closely. As a result, municipalities - which are responsible for im‑ plementing several delegated functions - are often viewed unfavourably by the central...

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A technical peer review of MHCLG's suggested approach to allocating funding between English local authorities

Ogden, Kate; Phillips, David - 2025

In any system for funding local government, there are inherent trade-offs between competing policy objectives. We have discussed these at length in a recent report (Phillips, 2024), and in our submission to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) December 2024...

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Green and transition finance on the municipal level : case of Huzhou City

Ma, Jun; Chen, Yunhan - 2025

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Do local elections affect the spending of intergovernmental transfers? : evidence from Germany's stimulus package of 2009

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P. - 2025 - This version: October 2025

In this paper, we study whether local spending of intergovernmental grants is influenced by mayoral elections in the grant receiving municipality. We exploit the implementation of the German federal government's second economic stimulus package of 2009 (K2) in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg as...

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Do local elections affect the spending of intergovernmental transfers? : evidence from Germany’s stimulus package of 2009

Bury, Yannick; Feld, Lars P. - 2024

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Effective per capita municipal expenditures correlated with population changes in small and medium-sized cities in Japan

Kato, Haruka - 2025

"In recent years, urban policy-makers have been urged to adopt the development of urban policies for shrinking cities from an urban management perspective. However, urban management in shrinking cities is a difficult problem because it is fiscally restrictive compared with cities with growing...

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How do immigrants affect local public finances? : evidence from Italian municipalities

Mariani, Rama Dasi; Mayda, Anna Maria; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2025

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Imperfect market competition theory on foreign direct investment using regency-level data : evidence from Indonesian special economic zones

Nugroho, Rahmad Hadi; Susanto, Ely; Saleh, Samsubar - 2025

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The flypaper effect phenomenon of intergovernmental transfers during the Covid-19 : evidence from Indonesia

Wati, Lela Nurlaela; Ispriyahadi, Heri; Zakaria, Dhika … - 2022

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The impact of fiscal expenditure fluctuation on cost asymmetry : evidence from China

Liao, Jingwen; Yang, Hao; Li, Ziyang; Chen, Yanjun - 2025

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Does deepening fiscal decentralization decrease cultural finances?

Lee, Hakjun; Kim, Boeun - 2025

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The role of industrialisation in education expenditure : municipal budgets in Biscay : 1860-1910

Palacios-Mateo, Adrian - 2024

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How have English councils' funding and spending changed? : 2010 to 2024

Ogden, Kate; Phillips, David - 2024

Like spending on the NHS, and schools, English council funding has increased over the current parliament. But that follows a decade of austerity in the 2010s. And despite funding increases, councils are again under significant financial pressure, with increases in spending outpacing revenues and...

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Does persistent costinefficiency exist? : a municipal-level analysis of expenditure in Victorian local government

Tran, Carolyn-Dung T. T.; Dollery, Brian - 2025

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Does government spending really contribute to development? : evidence from Indonesia

Sutaryo, Sutaryo; Arifin, Taufiq; Muhtar, Muhtar; … - 2025

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Forced migration and local public policies : evidence from post-war West Germany

Chevalier, Arnaud; Elsner, Benjamin; Lichter, Andreas; … - 2024

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Fiscal decentralization and the composition of local government expenditure : evidence from South Korea

Park, Jinsol - 2022

The implicit idea underlying theories of fiscal federalism is that fiscal decentralization can change the composition of government expenditure. That is, regardless of whether decentralization enables governments to more readily reflect citizen preferences regarding spending categories or...

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Young versus old politicians in local politics

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024

Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using hand-collected candidate-level data on municipal elections (1996-2020), along with detailed administrative data on municipal spending in Bavaria. Our identification strategy makes...

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Reforming local government funding in England : the issues and options

Phillips, David - 2024

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Does inequality still matter? : income heterogeneity and local government expenditure

Drew, Joseph; Miyazaki, Masato; McQuestin, Dana - 2024

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Legevaktutgifter i 2023 : en kartlegging av kommunenes netto driftsutgifter til legevakt og beregning av landets totale utgifter til legevakt

Thonstad, Merete; Stølan, Solveig Bryne Castberg; … - 2024

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Local government expenditure and quality of life in Finnish municipalities

Makkonen, Teemu; Vartiainen, Niko; Rauhut, Daniel; … - 2024

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Population growth in growing and declining cities : the role of balanced-budget increases in local government spending

Brasington, David M. - 2024

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Electoral incentives to target investment in roads : evidence from Italian municipalities

Ferraresi, Massimiliano; Rizzo, Leonzio; Secomandi, Riccardo - 2024

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What is the outlook for English councils' funding?

Ogden, Kate; Phillips, David - 2024

English councils saw big cuts to their funding during the 2010s, with spending on some services down between 40% and 70% over the decade. And although like virtually all public services, funding for local government was increased during the 2019-24 parliament, councils' finances are still under...

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Current challenges in intergovernmental fiscal relations

Mello, Luiz de; Ter-Minassian, Teresa - 2024

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Young versus old politicians and public spending priorities

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Schirner, Sebastian - 2024

Do young politicians prioritize other types of municipal spending than old politicians? We study this question using hand-collected candidate-level data on municipal elections (1996–2020), along with detailed administrative data on municipal spending in Bavaria. Our identification strategy...

Persistent link: https://ebvufind01.dmz1.zbw.eu/10015446956

Ensuring budgetary resources at the level of local communities in the current social-economic context : evidence for Romanian municipalities

Onofrei, Mihaela; Bostan, Ionel; Cigu, Elena; … - 2023

This paper aims to examine whether the status of fiscal decentralization generates efficiency in local spending behavior and leads to local fiscal performance and local economic growth, revealing not only the status of Romania from the point of vertical fiscal imbalance but also the fiscal...

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Tax responses in local public finance : the flypaper effect at work

Köthenbürger, Marko; Loumeau, Gabriel - 2023

The transfer elasticity of income tax rates is an important parameter in public finance. Given the significant fiscal autonomy of Swiss municipalities, Switzerland is an ideal setting for examining behavioral responses to tax policy. Using a regression kink design, we find robust causal evidence...

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Tax Responses in Local Public Finance : The Flypaper Effect at Work

Köthenbürger, Marko; Loumeau, Gabriel - 2023

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The effects of fiscal decentralisation on local finances after the territorial reform of local government in 2015 in Albania

Hysi, Arben; Pjero, Elenica; Dede, Grigor; Kolte, Ashutosh - 2024

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Party Affiliation and Public Expenditures : Close-Race Evidence from French Municipalities

Allam, Yacine - 2023

Do elected politicians use public money differently depending on their ideology? When is partisanship most apparent during a mandate? The existing literature is mixed. Based on a regression discontinuity design, I show that political color significantly impacts public spending in French...

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Can "tight living" promote local government to improve the efficiency of fiscal expenditure? : evidence from the VAT reform in China

Wang, Chun - 2024

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Municipal Efficiency Spillovers in France

Piedra-Peña, Juan; Breuillé, Marie-Laure; Le Gallo, Julie - 2023

This paper provides evidence of the role of spillovers in the efficiency of French municipalities. These spillovers are apprehended through four levels of municipal equipment and we investigate municipal efficiency changes both for cities including a certain amount of equipment and for cities...

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The effects of illegal armed groups on municipal expenditures in Colombia

Pulido-Velásquez, Manuel; Earnhart, Dietrich - 2024

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Impacts of Administrative Work Transfer on Local Government Expenditure : Evidence from Japan

Kotani, Masayuki; Asada, Yoshihisa - 2023

We use the synthetic control method to analyze the impact of the transfer of administrative works on public welfare expenses, using the transition from an ordinary city to a core city, which is one of the designated statuses under the metropolitan system in Japan. Our results suggest that the...

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