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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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 (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance J Political Science > JS Local government Municipal government
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Finance, Public, Local government -- Labor productivity
Official Date:	July 2012
Dates:	Date Event July 2012 Submitted
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Publication Status:	Unpublished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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