자치단체 정책유형별 예산규모가 불용액 비율에 미치는 영향

This study analyzes the effect of budgets of policy types(allocative, reallocative, developmental) on the unused budget ratios by employing panel dataset during 10 years(2008-2017). Findings show that an increase in the budgets of developmental policies tend to increase unused budget ratio in most level of local governments. To the contrary, an increase in the budget of reallocative policy does not have impact on the unused budget ratio. It appears that majority of budgets in reallocative policies(e.g., social welfare) are made up of mandatory expenditure, resulting in minimal unused budget. However, sizable budgets in developmental policies appear not to be expended for several reasons. The analysis also illustrates that the level of local governments has impact on the unused budgets along with policy types. Above all, compared to metropolitan level government, unused budget ratio in most policy types at the lower level of government tends to be higher, resulting less efficient use of budgets. It appears that lower level of government, which lacks both administrative and fiscal capacity than the metropolitan government, cannot properly plan and execute budget, resulting a higher level of unused budget. By empirically analyzing local fiscal behavior surrounding unused budget, this study is expected to shed lights on further understanding of the topic.