Measuring local government technical (in)efficiency: An application and comparison of FDH, DEA and econometric approaches
Economic efficiency – understood in terms of jurisdictions providing a maximum amount of output for a given level of inputs – is one potential means to evaluate public policies. Various approaches, however, co-exist to measure the (technical) efficiency of organizations. Given that these rely on different underlying assumptions, it is important to assess whether, and to what extent, the approach taken affects the outcome of efficiency studies. The present paper employs a dataset of local governments in Flanders in 2000 to compare the three common approaches to measure (in)efficiency (i.c. FDH,... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2008 |
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Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
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Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / free disposal hull / data envelopment analysis / stochastic frontiers / government (in)efficiency / Flemish municipalities / Kommunalverwaltung / Kommunale Dienstleistung / Performance-Messung / Data-Envelopment-Analyse / Belgien |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26543648 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/54663 |