Browsing BI Open by Author "Kalb, Alexander"

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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 ...