Municipal amalgamation reforms are a policy being put to use in most developed countries.
The basic rationale for most of these reforms is taking advantage of economies of scale in …

Many local governments measure and report their performance, but the record of these
governments in actually using performance measures to improve services is more modest …

Since many mutual fund expenses are fixed costs, asset growth should reduce the ratio of
fund expenses to average net assets. A translog cost function is estimated for a sample of …

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the Twenty-first Century RI Mawby I~ ~~o~; ~~n~~; up LONDON AND NEW YORK Page 4 c Rob …

This paper analyzes returns to scale in public production. Existing studies fail to differentiate
among three dimensions of scale: service quality, the level of governmental activity, and the …

By the 1960s, serious questions were being raised about metropolitan-wide single-tier
governments. One reason was that people in different areas had different problems and …

The NSW Government is implementing a financial framework which is designed to
encourage government service providers to become more efficient and effective. NSW …

Data from 487 municipal governments with populations greater than 50,000 are examined to
see the relationship between population density and per capita government expenditures …

In this paper, we evaluate the efficiency of state police services in the continental United
States using a multiple-stage data envelopment analysis model. Using multiple inputs and …

Since the seminal work of Baumol, Panzer and Willig [1], economists have become
increasingly interested in incorporating the multifaceted nature of real-world production …