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What Determines Local Governments' Cost-efficiency? The Case of Road Maintenance
Kalb A. What determines local governments' cost-efficiency? The case of road maintenance, Regional Studies. This paper investigates the determinants of local governments' cost-efficiency in road maintenance for a panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, efficiency indices were calculated using non-parametric and parametric reference technologies, and were examined by estimating and comparing four different regression models. The results show that the disposable income of the counties' citizens, intergovernmental grants and the municipalities' payments to the counties influence efficiency negatively. Concerning political variables the results show weak evidence that efficiency decreases with an increasing share of seats of left-wing parties in the county council.
What Determines Local Governments' Cost-efficiency? The Case of Road Maintenance
Kalb A. What determines local governments' cost-efficiency? The case of road maintenance, Regional Studies. This paper investigates the determinants of local governments' cost-efficiency in road maintenance for a panel of German counties using a broad variety of estimation approaches. More specifically, efficiency indices were calculated using non-parametric and parametric reference technologies, and were examined by estimating and comparing four different regression models. The results show that the disposable income of the counties' citizens, intergovernmental grants and the municipalities' payments to the counties influence efficiency negatively. Concerning political variables the results show weak evidence that efficiency decreases with an increasing share of seats of left-wing parties in the county council.
What Determines Local Governments' Cost-efficiency? The Case of Road Maintenance
Kalb, Alexander (author)
Regional Studies ; 48 ; 1483-1498
2014-09-02
16 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Cost-efficiency , Road maintenance , Stochastic frontier analysis (SFA) , Data envelopment analysis (DEA) , German counties , 成本效益 , 道路维护 , 随机边界分析 (SFA) , 数据报络分析 (DEA) , 德国郡县 , Rapport coût-efficacité , Voirie , Analyse de Frontières Stochastiques , Analyse d'Enveloppement des Données , Länders , Kosteneffizienz , Straßensanierung , Stochastische Effizienzgrenzenanalyse (SFA) , Dateneinhüllanalyse (DEA) , Deutsche Landkreise , Rentabilidad , Mantenimiento de las carreteras , Análisis de fronteras estocásticas (AFE) , Análisis envolvente de datos (AED) , Distritos alemanes , H11 , R30 , R51
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