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Swedish municipalities data
Description
The panel data set consists of 265 Swedish municipalities and covers 9 years (1979-1987).
Usage
Dahlberg
Format
The variables are:
- id
ID number for municipality
- year
Year
- expenditures
Total expenditures
- revenues
Total own-source revenues
- grants
Intergovernmental grants received by the municipality
Total expenditures contains both capital and current expenditures.
Expenditures, revenues, and grants are expressed in million SEK. The series are deflated and in per capita form. The implicit deflator is a municipality-specific price index obtained by dividing total local consumption expenditures at current prices by total local consumption expenditures at fixed (1985) prices.
The data are gathered by Statistics Sweden and obtained from Financial Accounts for the Municipalities (Kommunernas Finanser).
Source
http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/jae/2000-v15.4/dahlberg-johansson/
References
M. Dahlberg and E. Johansson (2000) "An examination of the dynamic behavior of local governments using GMM bootstrapping methods", Journal of Applied Econometrics, 15(4), 401-416, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2678589.