This paper analyzes the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and efficiency of public service provision. The …. We employ a two-stage DEA (DEA = Data Envelopment Analysis) bootstrap approach to calculate relative efficiency measures … municipalities score lower in terms of technical efficiency than self-providing and contracting municipalities. The scope for …

municipalities in Chile, with special emphasis on the political factors that drive efficiency in the management of local resources …Lately, questionings have emerged on how public resources are managed. This work calculates the technical efficiency of …. First, we estimate efficiency scores by the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. Second, a Fractional Probit model is …

This paper offers a quantitative evaluation of the productive efficiency of state courts of first degree in Brazil …

produces reliable estimates. About 25% of the LAS are designated as efficient. The average efficiency score is 93%. For the …

governments’ efficiency ratings for the year 2000 (which relate tax revenues to the quantity of locally provided public goods), we …

We measure cost efficiency of 202 Czech municipalities of extended scope in period 2003-2008. The study is the first … application of overall efficiency measurement of the local governments in the new EU member states, and the second in post …-communist countries. We measure government efficiency through established quantitative and qualitative indicators of the provision of …

necessary. If the efficiency scores (supply side) indicate that local governments can simply “save” resources to make up for the … manage their expenditures. Since municipalities in Brazil are very heterogeneous, we estimate their efficiency using the … theorem model. Using 2010 data, we find evidence that efficient management of spending is sufficient to meet excess demand for …