The need to balance austerity with growth policies has put government efficiency high on the economic policy agenda in … Europe. Administrative reforms which boost the efficiency of the administration can alleviate the trade-off between … consolidation and public service provision. Against such backdrop, this study explores the determinants of efficiency enhancing …

public goods, and applying a fully non-parametric approach to estimate local government overall efficiency, the analysis … shows that more direct democratic activity is associated with higher government efficiency. This result suggests that more …

In this paper we investigate the determinants of local governments' technical efficiency in road maintenance for a … panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, we calculate efficiency indices … efficiency indices can be explained by estimating and comparing four different regression models. The results of our analysis …

quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has …

a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of Baden-Württemberg). First, we consider local government cost efficiency …. This indicates that there is a substantial divergence in efficiency despite a homogeneous institutional setting, leaving at …

on the individual unemployment duration in West Germany. By applying a multivariate mixed proportional hazards model, we …