Cost Inefficiency of Municipalities after Amalgamation

Cost Inefficiency of Municipalities after Amalgamation

This paper focuses on the increase in slack costs due to municipality amalgamation, which is pushed forward in several countries to achieve economies of scale. Employing the stochastic frontier cost function to estimate the inefficiency of local public expenditure due to slack, this study investigat...

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izdano v:MAGKS - Joint Discussion Paper Series in Economics (Band 14-2013)
Glavni avtor: Nakazawa, Katsuyoshi
Format: Artikel
Jezik:angleščina
Izdano: Philipps-Universität Marburg 2013
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Japan
Municipality amalgamation
Cost inefficiency
Slack cost
Stacastic frontier analysis
Wirtschaft
Economics
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