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The Efficiency of Public Expenditure, Evidence from the Czech Republic
Vraná, Veronika ; Zápal, Jan (advisor) ; Schneider, Ondřej (referee)
1 Abstract Efficiency is an important concept for performance evaluation of decision- making units. This thesis studies efficiency of public spending and methods of its estimation. Firstly, a wide range of efficiency estimators are defined and compared. For the public spending efficiency analysis the most convenient es- timator is found to be the cost frontier approach of the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). The second part of the thesis contains efficiency analysis of public spending in the 14 regions of the Czech Republic in the years 2003-2014. For the analysis current expenditure of regional offices is used as the input. Based on the investigation of regional services output index is formed and employed in the analysis. The estimation is performed using the cost frontier approach of the SFA as the main method. Various other efficiency estimators are then applied to the data in order to study robustness of the results. The thesis further discusses relative ranking of the regions and time evolution of efficiency scores using different assumptions and variety of methods. Lastly, several potential effects on the estimated efficiency are considered and analysed. JEL Classification D24, H41, H72 Keywords efficiency, regions, public expenditure, Czech Republic Author's e-mail verca25.vrana@seznam.cz Supervisor's e-mail...
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The Efficiency of Public Expenditure, Evidence from the Czech Republic
Vraná, Veronika ; Zápal, Jan (advisor) ; Schneider, Ondřej (referee)
1 Abstract Efficiency is an important concept for performance evaluation of decision- making units. This thesis studies efficiency of public spending and methods of its estimation. Firstly, a wide range of efficiency estimators are defined and compared. For the public spending efficiency analysis the most convenient es- timator is found to be the cost frontier approach of the Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). The second part of the thesis contains efficiency analysis of public spending in the 14 regions of the Czech Republic in the years 2003-2014. For the analysis current expenditure of regional offices is used as the input. Based on the investigation of regional services output index is formed and employed in the analysis. The estimation is performed using the cost frontier approach of the SFA as the main method. Various other efficiency estimators are then applied to the data in order to study robustness of the results. The thesis further discusses relative ranking of the regions and time evolution of efficiency scores using different assumptions and variety of methods. Lastly, several potential effects on the estimated efficiency are considered and analysed. JEL Classification D24, H41, H72 Keywords efficiency, regions, public expenditure, Czech Republic Author's e-mail verca25.vrana@seznam.cz Supervisor's e-mail...
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Sustainability of public debt, deficits of public budgets and economic growth
Marečková, Jana ; Ivanková, Kristýna (advisor) ; Maršál, Aleš (referee)
Cílem práce je otestovat udržitelnost veřejného dluhu a vliv fiskální politiky na ekonomický růst ve vybraných zemích OECD (Belgie, Francie, Itálie, Ra- kousko a Velká Británie). První část práce je věnována historickému vývoji eko- nomických přístupů k tomuto tématu a teoretickým předpokladům modelů. V druhé části práce přistupujeme k ekonometrické analýze. Na základě výsledků se podařilo prokázat udržitelnost veřejného dluhu v Belgii a Rakousku. U Itálie a Velké Británie výsledky ukazují, že jejich primární přebytky reagují pozitivně na zvyšující se poměr dluhu vůči HDP. Nepodařilo se však ukázat, že vývoj je- jich veřejného dluhu je stacionární proces. U Francie převažoval negativní vztah primárních přebytků a poměru dluhu vůči HDP. Vliv fiskální politiky na ekonomický růst zkoumáme z pohledu rozdělení výdajů na produktivní a neproduktivní a přijmů vlády na distorční a nedistorční. Z důvodu omezené dostupnosti dat se podařilo prokázat pouze v případě Itálie, že zvýšení fiskálního deficitu o 1% snižuje o 1% ekonomický růst, zvýšení distorčních daní o 1% snižuje ekonomický růst o 1,2% a zvýšení produktivních výdajů zvyšuje ekonomický růst o 0,5%. Druhou analyzovanou...
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Public spending for education and evaluation of their effectiveness
Šedivcová, Andrea ; Vítek, Leoš (advisor) ; Moravcová, Jana (referee)
The Bachelor thesis deals with public spending for education and evaluation of their effectiveness. It includes functioning characteristics and financing of regional schools and universities. It provides the possibility of a global view of the entire education system in the Czech Republic. The first part of the thesis describes system of education in the Czech Republic, the second part deals with education funding from the public budget. Finally based on collected data the thesis analyzes and evaluates the effectiveness of spending on education by using methods 3E - economy, efficiency and effectiveness.
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