Fiscal Balance Factors of the Local Government: Panel Data Evidence from OECD Countries

• Authors: Paweł Galiński

Title variants

PL

Czynniki Równowagi Fiskalnej Samorządu Terytorialnego: badanie danych panelowych dotyczące krajów OECD

Abstracts

PL

Równowaga fiskalna postrzegana jest jako podstawowy miernik stabilności fiskalnej w samorządzie terytorialnym. Wpływa ona na reakcję budżetu na wypadek potencjalnej recesji, determinując zagrożenie fiskalne i odporność finansową. Stąd ekonomiści prowadzą badania w celu identyfikacji czynników oddziałujących na równowagę fiskalną na szczeblu lokalnym. Dlatego celem tego artykuły jest zbadanie czynników o charakterze fiskalnym, społeczno-ekonomicznym, politycznym i instytucjonalnym, które wpływają na poziom salda budżetowego w relacji do Produktu Krajowego Brutto (PKB) na podstawie krajów OECD w latach 2007–2021. W badaniu zastosowano modele panelowe z efektami stałymi oraz z efektami losowymi, dynamiczne modele panelowe (GMM) oraz kwantylową regresję panelową z efektami stałymi. W rezultacie potwierdzono, że na poziom salda budżetowego samorządu terytorialnego w relacji do PKB oddziałuje strona wydatkowa decentralizacji fiskalnej, aktywność inwestycyjna, zmiany wskaźnika zadłużenia, inflacja, zmiana stopy bezrobocia, Wskaźnik Rozwoju Społecznego, wymiana handlowa, wzrost PKB oraz wybory samorządowe. Ujawniono także statystyczną istotność wpływu korupcji w przypadku oszacowanych modeli kwantylowej regresji panelowej z efektami stałymi. Dodatkowo zastosowano testy statystyczne U Manna–Whitney’a, Kruskala–Wallisa oraz Dunna w celu zidentyfikowania różnic pomiędzy krajami Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej i pozostałymi państwami OECD pod względem rozkładu badanego salda budżetowego w PKB.

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Fiscal balance is perceived as a principal measure of fiscal sustainability in the local government. It also affects the budgetary response to a potential recession, determining a fiscal distress and a financial resilience. Thus, the economists conduct studies to identify factors influencing the fiscal balance at the local public level. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to examine fiscal, socio-economic, political, and institutional factors which affect the level of fiscal balance of the local government sector in Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on the basis of the OECD countries in the period 2007–2021. In the study both panel data models with fixed effects (FE) and random effects (RE), dynamic panel data models (GMM), as well as panel quantile regressions with fixed effects were estimated. As a result, the paper confirms that fiscal balance of the local government in GDP is affected by fiscal decentralisation on the expenditure side, an investment activity, a change in the debt ratio, an inflation, a change in the unemployment rate, the Human Development Index, the trade openness, the GDP growth, and local elections. What was also found was a statistically significant influence of the corruption in the case of the panel quantile regression with fixed effects. In addition, the Mann-Whitney U test, the Kruskal-Wallis test, and the Dunn test were applied to identify whether the level of fiscal balance of the local government sector in GDP had the same distribution in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and other OECD countries.

Keywords

PL

równowaga fiskalna; deficyt; stabilność fiskalna; zagrożenie fiskalne; samorząd terytorialny; wybory samorządowe; korupcja

EN

fiscal balance; deficit; fiscal sustainability; fiscal distress; local government; local elections; corruption

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Łódzki. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
• Journal: Ekonomia Międzynarodowa
• Year: 2023
• Issue: 41
• Pages: 38-66

Dates

published

2023

Contributors

author

Paweł Galiński

• University of Gdańsk, Faculty of Management, Department of Banking and Finance

• https://orcid.org/0000000294074515

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Identifiers

DOI

10.18778/2082-4440.41.03

Biblioteka Nauki

28407270