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dc.contributor.author | Kalb, Alexander | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-02-16T15:10:44Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2009-02-16T15:10:44Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24747 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper we use a simple bureaucracy model of fiscal illusion to analyze the impact of intergovernmental grants on the cost efficiency of local jurisdictions. We find that a higher degree of redistribution within a system of fiscal equalization or an increase in the amount of grants received by a local jurisdiction leads to an extension of organizational slack or X-inefficiency in that jurisdiction. This theoretical prediction is tested by conducting an empirical analysis using a broad panel of German municipalities. The results of the empirical analysis are consistent with the theoretical findings and therefore support the existence of a negative incentive effect of intergovernmental grants on local authorities' cost efficiency. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aZentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) |cMannheim | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aZEW Discussion Papers |x08-051 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H11 | en |
dc.subject.jel | H77 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Cost efficiency | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Fiscal equalisation | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Intergovernmental grants | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Bureaucracy | en |
dc.subject.keyword | Stochastic frontier analysis | en |
dc.subject.keyword | German municipalities | en |
dc.subject.stw | Finanzausgleich | en |
dc.subject.stw | Kommunaler Finanzausgleich | en |
dc.subject.stw | Kommunalverwaltung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Bürokratietheorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Technische Effizienz | en |
dc.subject.stw | Fiskalillusion | en |
dc.subject.stw | Wirtschaftlichkeit | en |
dc.subject.stw | Theorie | en |
dc.subject.stw | Deutschland | en |
dc.subject.stw | organizational slack | en |
dc.title | The Impact of Intergovernmental Grants on Cost Efficiency: Theory and Evidence from German Municipalities | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 571867065 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
dc.identifier.repec | RePEc:zbw:zewdip:7361 | en |
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