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dc.contributor.authorGeys, Benny
dc.contributor.authorHeinemann, Friedrich
dc.contributor.authorKalb, Alexander
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-05T08:21:34Z
dc.date.available2014-02-05T08:21:34Z
dc.date.issued2013
dc.identifier.issn1869-4179
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/93936
dc.descriptionThis is the authors’ accepted and refereed manuscript to the articleno_NO
dc.description.abstractThis 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 – rather than estimate efficiency for one particular service – and explicitly account for exogenous or non-discretionary influences. The latter not only corrects for influences possibly beyond the control of local policy-makers, but also allows some indication with respect to the determinants of such ‘global’ efficiency. Our results indicate that there is a substantial divergence in efficiency across municipalities despite a homogeneous institutional setting. As especially smaller municipalities appears less efficient, these results support a case for policy programs aimed at boundary reviews or more extensive inter-communal cooperation among small municipalitiesno_NO
dc.language.isoengno_NO
dc.publisherSpringerno_NO
dc.subjectlocal government performanceno_NO
dc.subjectstochastic frontier analysisno_NO
dc.subjectGerman municipalitiesno_NO
dc.titleLocal government efficiency in German municipalitiesno_NO
dc.typeJournal articleno_NO
dc.typePeer reviewedno_NO
dc.source.pagenumber283-293no_NO
dc.source.volume71no_NO
dc.source.journalRaumforschung und Raumordnungno_NO
dc.source.issue4no_NO
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s13147-012-0191-x


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