O Efeito Flypaper nas Transferências para os Municípios Portugueses

• Type: Article in National Scientific Journal
• Date: 2005

Authors

Maria Emília Rio (Author) Other; José Costa (Author) FEP

Journal

Title: Revista Portuguesa de Estudos Regionais = Portuguese Review of Regional Studies

No. 8

Pages: 85-108

ISSN: 1645-586X

Publisher: Associação Portuguesa para o Desenvolvimento Regional (APDR)

Scientific classification

FOS: Social sciences

CORDIS: Social sciences

Other information

Resumo (PT): Unlike theoretical predictions, empirical research shows that an increase in lump-sum intergovernmental grants has a stronger effect on local public expenditure than an equivalent increase of the community disposable income. This phenomenon is known as the flypaper effect and has been subject to several studies abroad. In this model we analyse the flypaper effect for Portuguese municipalities. In the specification of the model we consider two approaches. In a first approach intergovernmental transfers are treated as an exogenous variable. In a second approach intergovernmental transfers are treated as an endogenous variable. The results, based on data of 308 Portuguese municipalities in 2001, provide empirical support to the flypaper effect hypothesis and confirm its sensibility to the econometric specification of intergovernmental transfers.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

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