towards production process concluding in the maintaining of public service production and increasing its efficiency related to … expenses reduction on public services efficiency and, based on these, to formulate conclusions on local governance efficiency …

This paper analyzes the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and efficiency of public service provision. The …. We employ a two-stage DEA (DEA = Data Evelopment 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 …

The objective of this study is to analyse the technical or productive efficiency of the refuse collection services in … the indices of efficiency obtained by the different approaches, as is demonstrated by the statistical tests used. Finally …, we have attempted to search for any relation existing between efficiency and the method (public or private) of managing …

This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of competencies among Spanish local … municipalities were conferred on more competencies. In addition, the likely efficiency gains from enhanceddecentralization increase …

based on linearprogramming approaches for efficiency measurement. We provide an application to Spanishmunicipalities, which …