Technical Efficiency of the Brazilian Municipalities: Correcting Nonparametric Frontier Measurements for Outliers

By M. D. C. S. D. Sousa, Borko D. Stosic. 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Bernardino Benito
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3. J. A. García
4. Benny Geys
5. Alexander Kalb
6. F. Bastida
7. David Ortiz-Rodríguez
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6. F. Bastida

Citations in the corpus

• Explaining differences in efficiency: an application to Spanish municipalities (2010, background): “( 2002 ), who assess the cost and production efficiency of local government programs for childhood immunization in urban and rural settings in Australia; Sampaio and Stosic ( 2005 ), that estimate the DEA technical efficiency for 4796 Brazilian municipalities; and Loikkanen and Susiluoto ( 2005 ), w”
• Value for money? German local government efficiency in a comparative perspective (2011, methodology): “Both existing studies of Brazilian municipalities (Sampaio de Sousa and Ramos, 1999 ; Sampaio de Sousa and Stosic, 2005 ) employ DEA and FDH methods.”