Subnational governments and COVID management

Simanti Bandyopadhyay, Sujana Kabiraj and Subrata Majumder

Economic Modelling, 2023, vol. 124, issue C

Abstract: In the backdrop of COVID, this paper is the first to investigate the role of different classes of indicators at the subnational (state) levels in managing the crisis, which would augment the role played by the central governments. Three distinct time periods are considered between August and November 2020. We sample three amongst the worst affected countries viz, India, Mexico and USA, belonging to three different stages of development. First, a meta frontier analysis with state level data is attempted to estimate the efficiency of COVID management using DEA. Country level efficiency scores increase over time indicating a positive role of experience in crisis management. The states in USA performed consistently better compared to states in other countries. An exploratory median analysis in the second stage shows that finance, development and governance indicators at the subnational levels prove to impact the performance in COVID management in varying degrees.

Keywords: Subnational finance; Development indicators; COVID Management; Non-parametric methods; Meta frontier analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 H70 H71 H72 H75 I11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2023.106299

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