Sylwia Pieńkowska-Kamieniecka, Olsztyn Poland Mazury in Olsztyn, Joanna Rutecka-Góra, D. Walczak
{"title":"Willingness to redistribute: the case of Poland","authors":"Sylwia Pieńkowska-Kamieniecka, Olsztyn Poland Mazury in Olsztyn, Joanna Rutecka-Góra, D. Walczak","doi":"10.3326/pse.43.3.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/pse.43.3.2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46139612","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Impact of Direct and Indirect Taxes on the Growth of the Turkish Economy","authors":"Suna Korkmaz, Metehan Yilgor, F. Aksoy","doi":"10.3326/pse.43.3.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/pse.43.3.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3326/pse.43.3.5","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42255564","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Governance Beyond the Law: The Immoral, The Illegal, The Criminal","authors":"P. Bejaković","doi":"10.3326/pse.43.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/pse.43.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46162500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Bastida, Bernardino Benito, María‐Dolores Guillamón, Ana‐María Ríos
{"title":"Tax mimicking in Spanish municipalities: expenditure spillovers, yardstick competition, or tax competition?","authors":"F. Bastida, Bernardino Benito, María‐Dolores Guillamón, Ana‐María Ríos","doi":"10.3326/PSE.43.2.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/PSE.43.2.1","url":null,"abstract":"This paper evaluates whether the agency problem in public administration shapes Spanish municipalities’ tax policy. To this aim, we have considered 2,431 Spanish municipalities for the period from 2002 to 2013.We find significant evidence of tax mimicking of neighboring municipalities, in both property tax and car tax. However, incumbents are not signaling their competence through tax competition. Rather, expenditure spillovers explain this interaction. Municipalities seek to have the same services and infrastructures as their neighbors. The fact that there is not tax benchmarking does not mean that the agency problem is not present in Spanish municipalities. The agency problem is one of the reasons corruption is so widespread among Spanish municipalities. Regarding the further policy implications of our findings, legislation should direct municipal governments’ decisions towards the real needs of their constituencies.","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3326/PSE.43.2.1","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43074549","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Structural reforms for growth and cohesion: lessons and challenges for CESEE countries and a modern Europe","authors":"M. Vehovec","doi":"10.3326/PSE.43.2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/PSE.43.2.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45523937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Social welfare dynamics in post-socialist countries: unveiling the secrets of success","authors":"S. Slukhai, Tetiana Borshchenko","doi":"10.3326/PSE.43.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/PSE.43.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Since the global collapse of the socialist command economy, a significant differentiation in social and economic development within the former socialist world has been observed. Economists have pointed out a number of factors which could explain this disparity. One of the most important is market reform of the economy freeing Smith’s “invisible hand†that with the support of inclusive political and economical institutions makes it possible for the national economy to thrive and thus achieve higher welfare for the nation. In this article, the influence of various factors on social well-being in the post-socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe is analyzed. Our analysis has revealed that such factors as the level of economic freedom, intensity of economic reform, fostering of human capital, and level of national economy output play a significant role in creating a positive social welfare dynamics in transitional nations. It appears that the importance of these factors may vary within the cross-section of selected countries; thus, different policy patterns with regard to social welfare could be applied depending on factor combinations existing in some specific countries.","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47831842","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State ownership and performance of firm: evidence from India","authors":"O. Singh","doi":"10.3326/PSE.43.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/PSE.43.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, an analysis of the performance of public and private sector firms operating in five different industries over the period 2011 to 2015 has been made. Using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the performance has been measured in respect of technical efficiency. To compare the performance of public and private sector firms, two distinct methodologies have been used: independent samples t-test and the Tobit regression model. The results of t-test indicate that the private sector has significantly higher technical efficiency in two industries but in one industry is outperformed by the public sector. In the remaining two industries, both sectors are equally efficient or inefficient. While the results of the Tobit model show that even after controlling for the firm- and industry-specific characteristics as well as the scale effect, in three industries the public sector has a managerial efficiency significantly higher than the private sector, which is found to be more efficient only in one industry.","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48655041","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A proposal for a simple average-based progressive taxation system","authors":"Dirk-Hinnerk Fischer, S. Ferraro","doi":"10.3326/PSE.43.2.2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/PSE.43.2.2","url":null,"abstract":"This paper is a first theoretical presentation of a simple progressive taxation system. The system is based on two adaptations of one easily calculable formula that is based on the societal average income of the previous year. The system contributes to academic discussions as it is a novel approach. It is a progressive tax that does not discriminate against anyone as the progression increases continuously and the increase in tax payment does not go beyond the additional income. The analysis in the paper shows that the core advantage of the system is its simple, transparent and adaptable mechanism.","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-06-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48324998","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Transparency and government trust","authors":"Bastida Albaladejo, F. José","doi":"10.3326/PSE.43.1.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/PSE.43.1.3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42484494","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Metagovernance for Sustainability: A Framework for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals","authors":"P. Bejaković","doi":"10.3326/PSE.43.1.7","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3326/PSE.43.1.7","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":37447,"journal":{"name":"Public Sector Economics","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42482712","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}