Open AccessEffectiveness and efficiency of European Regional Development Fund on separate waste collection: evidence from Italian regions by a stochastic frontier approach
Author(s) -
Massimiliano Agovino,
Mariaconcetta Casaccia,
Alessandro Crociata
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
economia politica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.472
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 1973-820X
pISSN - 1120-2890
DOI - 10.1007/s40888-016-0050-2
Subject(s) - frontier , stochastic frontier analysis , convergence (economics) , econometrics , regional science , process (computing) , economics , order (exchange) , data collection , panel data , estimator , control (management) , computer science , macroeconomics , statistics , political science , geography , finance , mathematics , production (economics) , operating system , management , law
The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the results of the impact of\udEuropean Regional Development Fund (ERDF) in Convergence regions over the\ud2007–2013 on separate collection rate of Italian regions. The aim is twofold: propose\uda groundbreaking analysis that allows us to control both for the effectiveness of\udthe Regulation (EC) No. 1080/2006, by a Difference in differences equation (DID),\udand the Regions’ efficiency in the separate collection process, by a stochastic\udfrontier analysis (SFA). Specifically, the SFA allows us to model the DID equation\udin order to take account the regions’ efficiency in the separate collection process in\udterms of institutional quality. In particular, we use a panel with two dimensions:\udtemporal—9 yearly observations from 2004 to 2012; and cross-sectional—20\udregions. The estimates suggest that ERDF have not contributed to reducing the\udstructural divide in Italy and its managerial slack has triggered in the failure of the\udconvergence objective. Policy implications are discussed