Natural Resource Windfalls and Efficiency of Local Government Expenditures: Evidence from Peru

Martin Ardanaz () and Stanislao Maldonado

No 14578, Documentos de Trabajo from Universidad del Rosario

Abstract: We study the role of natural resource windfalls in explaining the efficiency of public expenditures. Using a rich dataset of expenditures and public good provision for 1,836 municipalities in Peru for period 2001-2010, we estimate a non-monotonic relationship between the efficiency of public good provision and the level of natural resource transfers. Local governments that were extremely favored by the boom of mineral prices were more efficient in using fiscal windfalls whereas those benefited with modest transfers were more inefficient. These results can be explained by the increase in political competition associated with the boom. However, the fact that increases in efficiency were related to reductions in public good provision casts doubts about the beneficial effects of political competition in promoting efficiency.

Keywords: Resource booms; intergovernmental transfers; local government efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 56
Date: 2016-05-13
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