Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part I

I Narbón‐Perpiñá, K De Witte - International Transactions in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic
of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive …

Local governments' efficiency: a systematic literature review—part II

I Narbón‐Perpiñá, K De Witte - International Transactions in …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic
of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive …

Assessing and explaining the relative efficiency of local government

A Afonso, S Fernandes - The Journal of Socio-Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
We assess the relative efficiency of local municipalities using Data Envelopment Analysis
and parametric analysis. As an output measure we compute a composite local government …

The trade-off between cost efficiency and public service quality: A non-parametric frontier analysis of Italian major municipalities

C Lo Storto - Cities, 2016 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of an empirical study aimed at evaluating the cost efficiency
of 108 Italian major municipalities, and investigating to what extent the municipality …

Competition in the political arena and local government performance

J Ashworth, B Geys, B Heyndels, F Wille - Applied Economics, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Competition reduces rent extraction in private-sector firms. In this article, we empirically
assess whether it similarly disciplines politicians by evaluating local-level governments' …

Local government efficiency: reviewing determinants and setting new trends

J Milán‐García, N Rueda‐López… - International …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
This paper has reviewed the international literature on the explaining factors of efficiency of
local governments from 1990 to June 2019. The main objective of this work is to explore the …

Political control of administrative spending: The case of local governments in Norway

J Kalseth, J Rattsø - Economics & politics, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
Excessive administrative spending in local governments has been a concern in the public
debate in Norway. Administration takes resources away from welfare services such as …

Newspaper circulation and local government efficiency

C Bruns, O Himmler - Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, we examine the role of the newspaper market for a key aspect of political
accountability: the efficient use of public funds by elected politicians. Newspapers are a …

Evolution and latest trends of local government efficiency: Worldwide research (1928–2019)

NR López, JM García, JU Toril… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2020 - Elsevier
This article has reviewed the international research from the 20th century to the first half of
2019 on the terms “efficiency” and “local government”. For this purpose, a bibliometric and a …

The efficiency of urban–rural integration in the Yangtze River Economic Belt and its optimization

G Muga, S Hu, Z Wang, L Tong, Z Hu, H Huang, S Qu - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
China has entered a new stage of integrated development of urban and rural areas under
the constraints of scarce land resources and the need for high-quality economic and social …