Informal taxes for the provision of public goods in Russian regions

2019 ◽  
pp. 124-134
Author(s):  
G. E. Besstremyannaya
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Local Public Goods ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Tax Revenues ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Statistical Agency

The article studies the example of informal taxes in Russia — a phenomenon when citizens provide voluntary payments for financing local public goods. This so-called “self-taxation” has attracted attention in 2017 upon the adoption of the changes to the local government law, which simplified the procedure for local referendum. The article outlines institutional reasons for the emergence of this mechanism and its risks for Russia and other countries. The empirical analysis exploits the data by the Russian Statistical Agency and the Russian Treasury. Our results reveal a positive relationship between the coefficient of regional cofinancing of municipal projects and the growth in the share of voluntary payments in the non-tax revenues of local budgets. Therefore, self-taxation by citizens may be viewed as a signalling tool for enhancing the quality of local public goods.

scholarly journals Contribution of the analysis of technical efficiency to the improvement of the management of services

DYNA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 82 (191) ◽  
pp. 176-182
Author(s):  
David López-Berzosa ◽  
Carmen De Pablos-Heredero ◽  
Carlos Fernandez-Renedo
Keyword(s):  
Technical Efficiency ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Efficiency Measures ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Quality Indexes

The technical efficiency measures the ability that a system offers at maximizing the result restricted to budgetary restrictions. This article offers formal methods to quantify the technical efficiency in health systems and the influences of organizational structures and internal processes in the observed technical efficiency are also analyzed. The empirical analysis is focused on the quality of donation and transplant services. The results show a positive relationship between the levels related to quality indicators and the observed technical efficiency in the donation and transplant units of the 11 analyzed hospitals. This way it is possible to conclude that high levels in the quality indexes are a necessary condition to reach an increased level of the service offered.

scholarly journals Firm Size, Competition, Financing and Innovation

2014 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zeina Alsharkas
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Firm Size ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Enterprise Performance ◽  
Logit Models ◽  
Access To Finance ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Abstract This paper investigates the effects of firm size, competition and access to finance on the innovation performance of that firm. After a review of the relevant literature, three logit models are proposed and tested. The empirical analysis is based on the business environment and enterprise performance survey (BEEPS) for 1053 enterprises from twenty-six countries in years 2002 and 2005. Our results suggest a positive and statistically significant relationship between firm size and innovation. We also find a positive relationship between both competition and access to finance with innovation.

Causes of China's Low Consumption from the Perspective of Local Governmental Competition

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-31
Author(s):  
Yaling Zhu ◽  
Huifang Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Panel Data ◽  
General Equilibrium ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Mathematical Models ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Household Consumption ◽  
Total Consumption ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Empirical Analysis

Taking into account the three-sector general equilibrium perspective of the government, business, and household sectors and taking government public goods investment as intermediary; this article builds mathematical models of local governmental competition and three-sector consumption. It also theoretically analyzes the impacting path of local governmental competition, causing increased investment in public goods, thereby reducing consumption. At the same time, based on the model of China's provincial panel data from 1993 to 2015, the empirical analysis shows that a 1% increase in the level of competition among local governments will result in a corresponding decrease of 0.757% in total consumption, 0.348% in governmental competition, 0.340% in business consumption and 0.366% in household consumption. Local governmental competition leads to the government's tendency to invest in public goods and reduces the regional consumption, which especially damages the consumption capacity of the household sector.

scholarly journals Measuring the social value of local public goods: an empirical analysis within Paris metropolitan area

2006 ◽  
Vol 38 (16) ◽  
pp. 1945-1961 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Gravel ◽  
Alessandra Michelangeli ◽  
Alain Trannoy
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Metropolitan Area ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Local Public Goods ◽  
The Social

scholarly journals Ethnicity and Conflict: An Empirical Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 102 (4) ◽  
pp. 1310-1342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan Esteban ◽  
Laura Mayoral ◽  
Debraj Ray
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Group Cohesion ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Ethnic Distribution ◽  
Conflict Intensity ◽  
Country Specific

We examine empirically the impact of ethnic divisions on conflict, by using a specification based on Esteban and Ray (2011). That theory links conflict intensity to three indices of ethnic distribution: polarization, fractionalization, and the Gini-Greenberg index. The empirical analysis verifies that these distributional measures are significant correlates of conflict. These effects persist as we introduce country-specific measures of group cohesion and of the importance of public goods, and combine them with the distributional measures exactly as described by the theory. (JEL D63, D74, J15, O15, O17)

scholarly journals 7.1. METHODICAL ASPECTS OF EVALUATING THE INFORMATION OPENNESS OF A LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT BODY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
А.Г. Атаева ◽  
А.В. Дунаева
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Local Government ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Russian Regions ◽  
Organization Of Work ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Government Body ◽  
Comprehensive Indicator

В статье анализируется опыт регионов Российской Федерации по оценке информационной открытости органов государственной власти и органов местного самоуправления. Предлагается комплексный показатель информационной открытости органа местного самоуправления, который включает в себя сводные показатели работы органа власти с населением, качества и посещаемости официального сайта, активности работы органа власти в социальных сетях, качества организации работы со средствами массовой информации, удовлетворенности населения информационной открытостью. The article analyzes the experience of Russian regions in assessing the informational openness of state authorities and local governments. A comprehensive indicator of the information openness of the local government is proposed, which includes summary indicators of the work of the government with the population, the quality and attendance of the official website, the activity of the government on social networks, the quality of the organization of work with the media, and public satisfaction with information openness.

scholarly journals Research on How to Integrate Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education into Professional Education ---Based on Empirical Analysis of Administration Management Major in Six Colleges of Guangzhou

2021 ◽  
Vol 275 ◽  
pp. 03008
Author(s):  
Haiyan Ye ◽  
Qin Chen ◽  
Yaotang Chen ◽  
Yingzhi Chen
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Entrepreneurship Education ◽  
Interview Data ◽  
Administrative Management ◽  
Innovation Ability ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

The combination of innovation and entrepreneurship education with administrative management can improve professional innovation ability and development thinking of students, and improve the quality of talent training. Based on the empirical analysis of six colleges in Conghua, Guangzhou, this paper analyzed the current problems in the integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education and administrative management in universities. Combined with survey and interview data and materials, this paper studied the relationship between innovation and entrepreneurship education and administrative management from the perspectives of students and teachers, summarized and classified the integrated characteristics of the surveyed colleges. It also proposed a four-in-one “1+4” integration circle of “teacher-company-university-society”, which centered on students, so as to escort the practice and guarantee of the two systems, and promote the high integration of innovation and entrepreneurship education and management majors in colleges.

scholarly journals The Comparative Analysis of Higher School Students’ Conflictological Culture On The Basis Of Their Left-/Right- Handedness

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 369
Author(s):  
Olga Shsherbakova ◽  
Anna Tatarinceva
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
European Council ◽  
School Students ◽  
Life Long Learning ◽  
Left And Right ◽  
The Given ◽  
The Empirical Analysis ◽  
Integral Quality

<p><em>We face with different kinds of conflicts every day. The problem of the conflictological culture   of personality is urgent nowadays, because only a person with a highly developed level of the ability to avoid or successfully solve conflicts can succeed at work and in life-long learning. The European Council defined five key competences necessary for future specialists’ successful functioning in the contemporary society. The first place in this list was assigned for social competence as the ability to be responsible, able to take part in group decisions, avoid and resolve conflicts (The Symposium of the European Council. Brussels, 1996). The authors of the given research analyze the essence of the notions ”conflict”,  “conflictological culture”, as an integral quality of a person where the main stress is paid on its structural components’ content. They also  investigate different aspects of activities and psychophysiological development of left- and right-handedness of people. The empirical analysis conducted in the research presents the data obtained in the investigation  of the left- and right-handed students’ conflictological culture’s level. The Object of the research is the conflictological culture’s  level of students  at higher school. The Aim of the research is to investigate: 1) the essence of  the notions “ conflict”, “ conflictological  culture”, 2) the level of conflictological culture  of students of the 1<sup>st</sup> and 4<sup>th</sup> courses at  higher school on the basis of their left-/right—handedness. The Methods of the research are the following:1. Theoretical methods:The theoretical analysis of scientific literature on the given problem.2.Quantitative methods: questionnaires.3.The empirical analysis of obtained data.</em></p><p> </p>

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