Voting for Inefficiency

Maria Nieswand, Pio Baake and Lilo Wagner

VfS Annual Conference 2015 (Muenster): Economic Development - Theory and Policy from Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a probabilistic voter model that rationalizes the ineff cient use of labor input in municipality-owned enterprises. Our focus is on the relationship between absolute as well as relative ineff ciency measures and the size of the municipality in which public rms operate. We show that larger communities maintain enterprises, which are on average more eff cient in absolute as well as relative terms and that e ffciency shows a lower variance for large enterprises. Using data from a sample of electricity distribution companies in Germany we find our theoretical predictions consistent with the companies' observed behavior.

JEL-codes: D24 H83 L32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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