• openAccess   Local government efficiency: determinants and spatial interdependence 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Brun-Martos, Maria Isabel; Márquez-Ramos, Laura 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 ...
    • closedAccess   The effects of the political environment on transparency: evidence from Spanish local governments 

      Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Brun-Martos, Maria Isabel Taylor and Francis Group (2021)
      This article analyzes the evolution of economic and financial transparency in Spanish local governments (LGs) and their determining factors. The main results show that the level of financial disclosure seems to be the ...