ListarDepartament: Finances i Comptabilitat por tema "efficiency"
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Decentralization and efficiency of local government
Springer-Verlag (2010)This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of power in Spanish local governments for the years 1995 and 2000. To this end, we carried out a two-stage activity analysis in which the performance ... -
Evaluating local government performance in times of crisis
Taylor and Francis Group (2019)In recent years, Spanish local governments have come under increasing pressure to accommodate severe economic restrictions while maintaining their provision of local public services. We analyse overall cost efficiency in ... -
Explaining local governments' cost efficiency: Controllable and uncontrollable factors
Elsevier (2020-05)Efficient and effective management of public resources is essential at all levels of government. This issue has gained momentum due to the strains that affected public sector finances after the onset of the 2007/08 crisis ... -
Local government efficiency: determinants and spatial interdependence
Taylor and Francis Group (2019)We analyse the determinants of local government efficiency taking into account the presence of spatial interactions among neighbouring municipalities. To do so, first we estimate an efficiency index using the robust order-m ... -
Quality of government and economic growth at the municipal level: Evidence from Spain
Wiley (2021-07-21)This paper analyzes the relationship between government efficiency—an important dimension of quality of government—and economic growth at the municipal level in 1,820 Spanish municipalities during the period 2008–2015. At ... -
Which estimator to measure local governments’ costefficiency? The case of Spanish municipalities
Springer Verlag (2019)WeanalyseoverallcostefficiencyinSpanishlocalgovernmentsduringthecrisisperiod(2008–2015). To this end, we first consider some of the most popular nonparametricmethods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment ...