Elasticities of Regional and Local Administrations Expenditures

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Elasticities of Regional and Local Administrations Expenditures - the Portuguese case

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Paulo Reis Mourão () (Universidade do Minho - NIPE)

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This work analyses the evolution of real public expenditures of local and regional administrations (LRA), in Portugsl, in the period after the Second World War. It also aims to estimate the elasticities associated to determinants, which explain the found growth. As most relevant results, it is focused that real public espenditures of LRA did not increase in a constant way - the most significant period of growth was between 1974 and 1990. A long-term relation was found among real public expenditures of LRA ( as a proportion of real Gross National Product), the Number of Employees in Public Administration, the Number of Unemployed and Public Revenues. These results are consistent with the bureaucracy being a source of discouragement referring to the decentralized public expenditures.

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Paper provided by NIPE - Universidade do Minho in its series NIPE Working Papers with number 5/2005.

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- Mourao, P. R., 2005. "Elasticities of Regional and Local Administrations Expenditures: the Portuguese case," Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, Euro-American Association of Economic Development, vol. 5(1). [Downloadable!]
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- Paulo Mourão, 2004. "Elasticities of Regional and Local Administrations Expenditures - the Portuguese case," ERSA conference papers ersa04p93, European Regional Science Association. [Downloadable!]

Find related papers by JEL classification:
H50 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - General
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H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
C13 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Estimation

This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

NEP-ALL-2005-03-20 (All new papers)
NEP-GEO-2005-03-20 (Economic Geography)
NEP-PBE-2005-03-20 (Public Economics)

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