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 …

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 …