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  • 标题:Local Government Efficiency in German Municipalities
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  • 作者:Benny Geys ; Friedrich Heinemann ; Alexander Kalb
  • 期刊名称:Raumforschung und Raumordnung
  • 印刷版ISSN:0034-0111
  • 电子版ISSN:1869-4179
  • 出版年度:2013
  • 卷号:71
  • 期号:4
  • 页码:283-293
  • DOI:10.1007/s13147-012-0191-x
  • 出版社:Sciendo
  • 摘要:This article evaluates German local governments' cost efficiency using a sample of 1,021 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 of 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 appear less efficient, these results support a case for policy programmes aimed at boundary reviews or more extensive inter-communal cooperation among small municipalities.
  • 关键词:Local government performance ; Stochastic frontier analysis ; German municipalities ; Öffentliche Leistungserstellung ; Stochastic frontier analysis ; Deutsche Kommunen
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