What drives intermediate local governments' spending efficiency : the case of French départements

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dc.contributor.authorSEIFERT, Stefan
dc.contributor.authorNIESWAND, Maria
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dc.date.available2016-03-09T17:20:23Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe restructuring of the allocation of governmental competencies in France has increased the importance of subnational governments by transferring additional tasks. We analyse the efficiency of public spending on the intermediate government level for the 96 départements in metropolitan France in 2008. Spending efficiency is measured using Data Envelopment Analysis. Results indicate significant room for improvement and we detect an average spending inefficiency of 12%. To explain efficiency, a bootstrapped truncated regression is applied. The second-stage regression shows that efficiency is also determined by exogenous factors and identifies the distance to the national capital, inhabitants’ income and the share of inhabitants older than 65 as significant determinants of efficiency.
dc.identifier.citationLocal government studies, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 766-790
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03003930.2013.812962
dc.identifier.endpage790
dc.identifier.issn0300-3930
dc.identifier.issn1743-9388
dc.identifier.issue5
dc.identifier.startpage766
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/39528
dc.identifier.volume40
dc.language.isoen
dc.relation.ispartofLocal government studies
dc.relation.ispartofseries[Florence School of Regulation]en
dc.titleWhat drives intermediate local governments' spending efficiency : the case of French départements
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