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What explains variation in volume of the volume of capital assets in Swedish local municipalities?

Författare

  • Jonas Fjertorp

Summary, in English

Local governments in Sweden execute extensive volumes of capital investments.

The volume of capital assets in for profit organisations is limited by profitability

criteria. Local municipalities are not for profit organisations where profitability

criteria are subordinated. This paper investigates explanations of variation in

development of the volume of capital assets in Swedish local municipalities

between 1999-2008. In the first step four cases were performed to generate eight

suggestions for explanations. Hypothesises were generated by combining the

suggested explanations with a new political economy framework containing four

assumptions. A national data set of 288 (of total 290) Swedish local municipalities

was used in a multiple linear regression analysis. The regression model include five

variables and explains 31 percentage of the variation.

An increasing volume of capital assets could be explained by population growth, a

high volume of capital assets per capita at the beginning of the period, high solidity

at the beginning of the period, an increasing level of charges and high political

stability with few majority changes. A decreasing volume of capital assets could be

explained in the opposite way.

Publiceringsår

2010

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Konferensbidrag

Ämne

  • Economics and Business

Nyckelord

  • local municipalities
  • economic conditions
  • population growth
  • new political economy
  • capital assets
  • capital investments
  • regression analysis

Conference name

6th International Conference on Accounting, Auditing and Management in Public Sector Reforms, EIASM.

Conference date

2010-09-01 - 2010-09-03

Conference place

Copenhagen, Denmark

Status

Submitted