Browsing BI Open by Author "Heinemann, Friedrich"
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Local government efficiency in German municipalities
Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013)This article evaluates German local governments’ cost efficiency using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of Baden-Württemberg for the year 2001. We thereby concentrate on overall or ‘global’ efficiency scores – ... -
Value for money? German local government efficiency in a comparative perspective
Kalb, Alexander; Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2012)In this paper, we investigate the cost efficiency of German local governments in the state of Baden-Württemberg in 2004 using a stochastic frontier approach. Besides being the first study on German data, we add two elements ...