Cost-efficiency of Japanese local governments: effects of decentralization and regional integration
Cost-efficiency of Japanese local governments: effects of decentralization and regional integration
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日本地方政府的成本效率：权力下放和区域一体化的影响
DOI：
10.1080/21681376.2014.953196
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发表时间：
2014
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通讯作者：
T. Sueyoshi
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作者：
Akihiro Otsuka;M. Goto;T. Sueyoshi
随机前沿分析是用来检查日本地方政府的成本效率在一个县一级，相当于美国的州。成本效率问题与财政分权有两个政策关系：一个是中央政府向地方政府的财政转移是否影响成本效率;另一个是地方人口规模是否影响成本效率。本文的实证研究证实了财政转移支付具有负效应。相反，人口规模具有积极影响。这两项研究结果表明，日本地方政府可以通过地方分权减少财政转移支付，通过地区一体化增加人口增长，从而提高成本效益。
Stochastic frontier analysis is used to examine the cost-efficiency of Japanese local governments at a prefectural level, corresponding to states in the United States. The issue of cost-efficiency has two policy concerns for fiscal decentralization: one is whether fiscal transfers from central government to local governments influence cost-efficiency; the other is whether the size of the local population influences cost-efficiency. This study empirically confirms that the fiscal transfers have a negative effect. In contrast, population size has a positive effect. The two findings may suggest that Japanese local governments can improve their cost-efficiencies by both reducing the amount of fiscal transfers via decentralization and increasing a population growth via regional integration.
日本地方分配税补助的贫困陷阱
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2009
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作者：
高桑和巳;他;大工原勇人;松井圭介;Takero Doi
通讯作者：
Takero Doi