Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; … - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 11 (2020) 1, pp. 51-82
We analyse overall cost efficiency in Spanish local governments during the crisis period (2008-2015). To this end, we first consider some of the most popular nonparametric methods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment analysis and free disposal hull, as well as recent...