The appropriate creation and size of local jurisdictions are important for achieving efficiency gains in local government goods and services provision. In general, the size of local government units should effi ciently combine scale and congestion effects in order to minimise local authority...

This paper theoretically and empirically investigates variations in the size of the non-profit sector among countries. Although the non-profit sector has experienced growth in relative socio-economic importance in recent decades, the available data on the size of the sector indicates substantial...