This paper focuses on the increase in slack costs due to municipality amalgamation, which is pushed forward in several countries to achieve economies of scale. Employing the stochastic frontier cost function to estimate the inefficiency of local public expenditure due to slack, this study...

Die Untersuchung zur Verwaltungsstruktur- und Funktionalreform in Schleswig-Holstein dokumentiert den Versuch, über eine Zusammenführung von Aufgaben- und Wirtschaftlichkeitsanalyse in einem politisch hoch polarisierten Aufgabenbereich Handlungsoptionen für die Verwaltungspolitik der...

This paper investigates the political economy of after merger effects of the large scale municipal amalgamations in the German state of Baden-W¨urttemberg in the early 1970s. By exploiting the huge variance in the amalgamation process in terms of number of participating municipalities,...

This paper investigates the political economy of after merger effects of the large scale municipal amalgamations in the German state of Baden-Württemberg in the early 1970s. By exploiting the huge variance in the amalgamation process in terms of number of participating municipalities,...