Haneda, Shoko; Hashimoto, Akihiro; Tsuneyoshi, Takao - In: International Regional Science Review 35 (2012) 2, pp. 237-262
This article analyzes the change in municipal administrative efficiency in the post-merger period using the data of 92 municipalities in Ibaraki prefecture for the period 1979–2004. For this purpose, the authors employ a nonparametric programming method to compute a data envelopment...