Cost Efficiency in Australian Local Government: A Comparative Analysis of Mathematical Programming anf Econometrical Approaches

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Decentralization and efficiency of local government (2010, background): “Some applications that specifically focused on local government efficiency are, among others, those by De Borger and Kerstens (1996a,b), Vanden Eeckaut et al. (1993), Grosskopf and Hayes (1993), Grosskopf and Yaisawarng (1990), Hayes and Chang (1990), Ruggiero (1995), Hughes and Edwards (2000), Wor”
Value for money? German local government efficiency in a comparative perspective (2011, methodology): “Compared to other countries, this distance between the ‘average’ and ‘best practice’ municipalities in Germany is slightly larger than in Australia, Belgium, Greece and the US.”
Factors determining online sustainability reporting by local governments (2015, methodology): “…the explanatory variables for effectiveness and efficiency in local government that have been used in previous research (Benito et al., 2010; Worthington, 2000), we selected as potential explanatory factors three variables related to the population size: (1) Percentage of dependent…”
Explaining differences in efficiency: an application to Spanish municipalities (2010, methodology): “…January 2005) the Region of Murcia has a population of 1 335 792 inhabitants. who analyse the Belgian experience of municipal efficiency evaluation; Worthington (2000), who evaluates by means of econometric techniques and linear programming the efficiency of local governments (LG) in Australia;…”