Eficiência na gestão pública dos municípios brasileiros e autonomia financeira: uma análise para o período 2007-2019

Abstract

This study investigates the technical efficiency on the supply of public services and public goods by local governments in Brazil during the periods of 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2019. The cross-section samples have approximately 2.000 cities, that represents near of 35% of total Brazilian cities. The central interest of the study it is evaluate the role of financial autonomy and the size of the cities on the efficiency degree of local policymakers, it’s used the two-stage method proposed by Simar and Wilson (2007). The method’s first stage applies the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to measure the local’s technical efficiency. Yet in the second stage a double bootstrap procedure is applied to truncated regression model to corte the bias on the estimated efficiency and to identify the effect of environmental variables on local technical efficiency. The results indicate heterogeneity on efficiency as function of population size and of the region that the city is located. It’s also identified that the degree of autonomy on the budget revenues is a key component that contributes to a better supply of local public goods and services.