Economies of Scale on the Municipal Level: Fact or Fiction in the Czech Republic?

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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14560/17:00094879
Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1515/nispa-2017-0002" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1515/nispa-2017-0002</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Economies of Scale on the Municipal Level: Fact or Fiction in the Czech Republic?
Original language description
Many countries have carried out extensive amalgamation-related territorial reforms at the level of local self-government and created relatively large municipalities. The Czech Republic is one of the few remaining European countries with a fragmented territorial structure. There is a lot of discussion in the country about the need for amalgamation, but this discussion is mainly based on political arguments rather than on empirical evidence about the feasibility of amalgamation and its potential to improve local government performance. This paper analyses economies of scale on the local level as a factor that should be reflected in debates about the pros and cons of amalgamation in the Czech Republic. To add to the existing knowledge about the reality of economies of scale on the municipal level in the Czech Republic, we processed the municipal costs of three selected areas on a representative sample of municipalities in the South Moravian Region. The analysis showed that economies of scale can be identified for collecting local fees and for pre-school and elementary education, but not for local administration. Our results suggest that the existence of too small municipalities in the Czech Republic results in inefficiencies and should be addressed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50201 - Economic Theory

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA16-13119S" target="_blank" >GA16-13119S: Performance management in public administration - theory vs. practices in the Czech Republic and other CEE countries</a><br>
Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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