Economic openness, government efficiency, and urbanization

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuocheng Chen ◽  
Krishna P. Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Economic Openness ◽  
Government Efficiency

The Importance of Cultural Tightness and Government Efficiency For Understanding COVID-19 Growth and Death Rates

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Gelfand ◽  
Joshua Conrad Jackson ◽  
Xinyue Pan ◽  
Dana S. Nau ◽  
Munqith M. Dagher ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Death Rates ◽  
Government Efficiency

We have withdrawn this preprint as we update analyses with data on later stages of COVID-19. We will post an updated preprint as it is available. In the interim, if colleagues are interested in using the tightness-looseness scores we developed for this paper, we provide them below.

Participatory budgeting and government efficiency: evidence from municipal governments in South Korea

2021 ◽  
pp. 002085232199120
Author(s):  
Sun-Moon Jung
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Fiscal Sustainability ◽  
Efficiency Improvement ◽  
Participatory Budgeting ◽  
Strong Argument ◽  
Municipal Governments ◽  
Administrative Efficiency ◽  
Participatory Institutions ◽  
Improvement Effect ◽  
Government Efficiency

The current study evaluates the role of a democratic institution—participatory budgeting—in improving government efficiency. Participatory institutions aim to enhance governance, information sharing, and the responsiveness of political agents to citizens, leading to fiscal accountability and efficiency. Drawing from a database of 221 municipal governments in South Korea around a mandatory participatory budgeting adoption period, we find that participatory budgeting adoptions are followed by improvement in multiple dimensions of government efficiency. In particular, municipal governments experience statistically significant improvements in their fiscal sustainability and administrative efficiency. In additional analysis, we find that the efficiency improvements are more pronounced in the presence of strong mayoral leadership. Overall findings suggest that participatory budgeting programs contribute to fiscal health and administrative efficiency, above and beyond their role in securing fiscal democracy. Points for practitioners The current study suggests that participatory budget systems not only contribute to quality in democracy (as prior studies have found), but also improve fiscal efficiency and accountability by serving as a bottom-up governance mechanism. We document that introductions of participatory budgeting programs are followed by statistically significant improvements in fiscal sustainability and administrative efficiency. The results also indicate that the efficiency-improvement effect differs across municipalities, depending on their political environments. Overall, this study provides a strong argument for the participatory budgeting system by empirically supporting its efficiency-improvement effect.

scholarly journals Local government efficiency: reviewing determinants and setting new trends

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Milán‐García ◽  
Nuria Rueda‐López ◽  
Jaime De Pablo‐Valenciano
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Government Efficiency

scholarly journals Taxing impact of terrorism on global economic openness of developed and developing countries

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-335
Author(s):  
Abubakr Saeed ◽  
Yuhua Ding ◽  
Shawkat Hammoudeh ◽  
Ishtiaq Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Economic Openness ◽  
Significant Negative Impact ◽  
Military Expenditures ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This study examines the relationship between terrorism and economic openness that takes into account both the number and intensity of terrorist incidents and the impact of government military expenditures on trade-GDP and foreign direct investment-GDP ratios for both developed and developing countries. It uses the dynamic GMM method to account for endogeneity in the variables. Deaths caused by terrorism have a significant negative impact on FDI flows, and the number of terrorist attacks is also found to be significant in hampering the countries’ ability to trade with other nations. The study also demonstrates that the developing countries exhibit almost similar results to our main analysis. The developed countries exhibit a negative impact of terrorism, but the regression results are not significant.

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