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Efficient scale of prefectural government in China
Fukushige, Mototsugu; Shi, Yingxin - In: China finance and economic review : CFER 4 (2016), pp. 1-18
Background: China has five layers of government including the central government. Recently, some prefectural governments meet fiscal distress. Methods: We investigate the effects of urban and rural populations and area sizes on the expenditures of the prefecture-level local government by...
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Estimating output mix effectiveness : a scenario approach
Hanson, Torbjørn - 2016
The ability of public sector policy makers to prioritize has a huge impact on the effectiveness of public service provision. Public services can take the form of final outputs demanded by consumers or of intermediate outputs contributing to a process of realizing the higher goals of society. In...
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Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change : Efficiency and Economies of Scale in German Municipalities
Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2011
a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg). First, we consider local government cost efficiency …. This indicates that there is a substantial divergence in efficiency despite a homogeneous institutional setting, leaving at … than smaller ones, supporting a case for boundary reviews or more extensive inter-communal cooperation …
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Externalities and Production Efficiency
Eskeland, Gunnar S. - 2016
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Spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers in the presence of transient and persistent efficiency: evidence from China's provinces
Haini, Hazwan - In: Cogent economics & finance 8 (2020) 1, pp. 1-21
This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are … production frontier model that accounts for persistent and transient efficiency using a panel dataset of Chinese provinces from …
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Productive inefficiency in dairy farming and cooperation between spouses : evidence from Senegal
Hoel, Jessica B.; Hidrobo, Melissa; Bernard, Tanguy; … - 2017
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Spatial distribution of eco-innovation performance : evidence from European countries
Kijek, Tomasz; Matras-Bolibok, Anna - In: European research studies 23 (2020) 6, pp. 766-778
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Efficiency spillovers in Bayesian stochastic frontier models : application to electricity distribution in New Zealand
Carvalho, António - In: Spatial economic analysis : the journal of the Regional … 13 (2018) 2, pp. 171-190
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Dissolving Multi-Partnerships Efficiently
Yenmez, M. Bumin - 2012
I study a market where agents with jointly owned heterogeneous goods trade subject to the constraint that each agent ends up with one good. In this market the existence of an efficient, incentive compatible, individually rational and budget balanced mechanism depends on the shares of the agents....
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How efficient are the current U.S. beer taxes?
Shrestha, Vinish - In: Journal of economics and political economy : JEPE 3 (2016) 3, pp. 446-470
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