Grossman, Philip J.; Mavros, Panayiotis; Wassmer, Robert W. - 1998
where cities produce a level of local public sector output that can be considered "efficient". Efficiency can be quantifies … inefficient. In this paper we attempt to measure the relative efficiency of large city governments in the U.S. through the … that large city governments are operating at different degrees of efficiency and that many of the causal hypotheses …