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标题：Local Government Efficiency in German Municipalities
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作者：Benny Geys ; Friedrich Heinemann ; Alexander Kalb 等
期刊名称：Raumforschung und Raumordnung
印刷版ISSN：0034-0111
电子版ISSN：1869-4179
出版年度：2013
卷号：71
期号：4
页码：283-293
DOI：10.1007/s13147-012-0191-x
出版社：Sciendo
摘要：This article evaluates German local governments' cost efficiency using a sample of 1,021 municipalities in the state of Baden-Württemberg for the year 2001. We thereby concentrate on overall or 'global' efficiency scores—rather than estimate efficiency for one particular service—and explicitly account for exogenous or non-discretionary influences. The latter not only corrects for influences possibly beyond the control of local policy-makers, but also allows some indication of the determinants of such 'global' efficiency. Our results indicate that there is a substantial divergence in efficiency across municipalities despite a homogeneous institutional setting. As especially smaller municipalities appear less efficient, these results support a case for policy programmes aimed at boundary reviews or more extensive inter-communal cooperation among small municipalities.
关键词：Local government performance ; Stochastic frontier analysis ; German municipalities ; Öffentliche Leistungserstellung ; Stochastic frontier analysis ; Deutsche Kommunen