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Porcelli, Francesco (2012) Essays in local public finance : how to measure and stimulate local government efficiency. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.
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Official URL: http://webcat.warwick.ac.uk/record=b2661217~S1
Abstract
This thesis is concerned with the measurement and determinants of efficiency of
local governments in the provision of public goods and services. In particular, the
three chapters provide new contributions to the literature of fiscal federalism studying,
from different angles, the relationship between policies that can stimulate the
electoral accountability of politicians and local government efficiency in the provision
of public services.
In all chapters the measurement of local government efficiency has been obtained
through data envelopment analysis and stochastic frontier models using different
measures of inputs and outputs employed in the production of public services.
Subsequently, the determinants of efficiency have been studied using panel data
models and quasi-experimental methods.
The analysis takes advantage of the policies implemented by the Italian and
the United Kingdom (UK) government in the last 20 years. In particular, Italian
local authorities have been subject to an intense process of fiscal decentralisation,
and English councils have been subject to a unique process of performance evaluation
based on quantitative measures of outputs.
| Item Type: | Thesis or Dissertation (PhD) | ||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Finance, Public, Local government -- Labor productivity | ||||
| Official Date: | July 2012 | ||||
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| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||
| Theses Department: | Department of Economics | ||||
| Thesis Type: | PhD | ||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||
| Supervisor(s)/Advisor: | Lockwood, Ben | ||||
| Extent: | ix, 131 leaves : charts | ||||
| Language: | eng |
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