The hierarchy of public governance: resource allocation versus bureaucratic inefficiency

IF 0.3 4区经济学 Q4 ECONOMICS

Review of Economic Design Pub Date : 2023-12-29 DOI:10.1007/s10058-023-00344-8

Susheng Wang, Jun Xiao

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Abstract

Should a social program be run at a higher or lower level of government? We consider a government-run program supplying a private good to consumers. We focus on a tradeoff between the advantage of a high level of government in resource allocation and its disadvantage in consumer information. We look into the effect of differences in income levels, marginal costs, and preferences on the organization of public governance. One general conclusion is that when regional differences are large, the central government should be in charge; otherwise, local governments should be in charge.

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公共治理的层次：资源分配与官僚低效

一项社会计划应该由更高一级还是更低一级的政府来管理？我们考虑的是一个由政府管理、向消费者提供私人产品的项目。我们的重点是权衡高水平政府在资源分配方面的优势和在消费者信息方面的劣势。我们研究了收入水平、边际成本和偏好的差异对公共管理组织的影响。一个普遍的结论是，当地区差异较大时，应由中央政府负责；反之，则应由地方政府负责。

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Review of Economic Design ECONOMICS-

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期刊介绍： Review of Economic Design comprises the creative art and science of inventing, analyzing and testing economic as well as social and political institutions and mechanisms aimed at achieving individual objectives and social goals. In this age of Economic Design, the accumulated traditions and wealth of knowledge in normative and positive economics and the strategic analysis of game theory are applied with novel ideas in the creative tasks of designing and assembling diverse legal-economic instruments. These include constitutions and other assignments of rights, mechanisms for allocation or regulation, tax and incentive schemes, contract forms, voting and other choice aggregation procedures, markets, auctions, organizational forms, such as partnerships, together with supporting membership and other property rights, and information systems. These designs, the methods of analysis used in their scrutiny, as well as the mathematical techniques and empirical knowledge they employ, along with comparative assessments of the performance of known economic systems and implemented designs, all of these form natural components of the subject matter of Economic Design. Officially cited as: Rev Econ Design