Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery : Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter?
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Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery : Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter?

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Cost Efficiency of Municipalities in Service Delivery : Does Ethnic Fragmentation Matter?

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Driven by the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA), decentralisation in Macedonia is a policy choice for spurring national cohesion rather than an economic instrument for the more efficient delivery of services. The OFA resulted in a new Macedonian Constitution with policies related to the decentralisation process and equitable representation of communities. This book aims first to estimate the spending efficiency of Macedonian municipalities in service delivery from their own resources and, second, to ascertain the determinants of that efficiency. The ethnic fragmentation of municipalities is taken into account as a possible determinant of efficiency, which represents a novelty in such types of studies. We employ the DEA-VRS, Kernel and SFA estimation techniques to control for the robustness of our estimates. Our findings show that on average Macedonian municipalities exhibit low efficiency in service delivery, although there are significant variations among municipalities. The ethnic fragmentation of municipalities together with the population density, own tax revenues and political affiliation of the mayor with the leading political coalition at the state level explain differences in their efficiencies. More fragmented municipalities tend to be less efficient when providing services to citizens.

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Table of contents

  1. COST EFFICIENCY OF MUNICIPALITIES IN SERVICE DELIVERY: DOES ETHNIC FRAGMENTATION MATTER? by Marjan Nikolov
  2. ABSTRACT
  3. KEYWORDS
  4. Marjan Nikolov, Ph. D.: Author Biography
  5. Foreword
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Macedonia and the Transition
  9. 1 Macedonia in Yugoslavia
  10. 2 Monetary independence, transition, restructuring and macroeconomic performance
  11. 3 Structural changes in the Macedonian economy: The legacy of the transition
  12. 4 The Ohrid Framework Agreement and the new Macedonian constitution of 2001
  13. 4.1 History of the Macedonian and Albanian relationship
  14. 4.2 The OFA and the constitution after the OFA
  15. 5 Socio-economic differences in Macedonia at the regional level
  16. Theoretical Consideration of Decentralisation
  17. 1 Decentralisation theory
  18. 2 Public service delivery in an ethnically diverse local government
  19. 3 Economic efficiency and the fiscal gap
  20. Federalism and Decentralisation in Macedonia
  21. 1 Federalism in Yugoslavia
  22. 2 The Macedonian local government system in former Yugoslavia
  23. 3 Decentralisation in Macedonia after independence
  24. Measuring Municipal Efficiency in Macedonia
  25. 1 Review of empirical studies on the efficiency of local governments
  26. 1.1 Input and output variables in the first stage of the estimation
  27. 1.2 Determinants of efficiency
  28. 2 Methodological background
  29. 2.1 DEA frontiers
  30. 2.2 The Kernel nonparametric method
  31. 2.3 SFA frontiers
  32. 3 The model
  33. 4 Data
  34. 4.1 DEA input and output variables
  35. 4.2 The ethnic fragmentation variable
  36. 4.3 Political variables
  37. 4.4 Other explanatory variables
  38. 5 Estimation results
  39. 5.1 DEA-VRS estimation results
  40. 5.2 Kernel estimation results
  41. 5.3 SFA estimation results
  42. 5.4 Comparing the DEA-VRS efficiency scores with the SFA efficiency scores
  43. 6 Measuring the outcome as perceived by the citizens – subjective measures
  44. Conclusion
  45. References