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Overcoming cost-inefficiencies within small municipalities: improve financial condition or reduce the quality of public services?

机译:克服小城镇的成本低效问题:改善财务状况或降低公共服务质量?

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A common finding of studies evaluating cost-efficiency in the provision of local public services is the existence of economies of scale in the production of such services. How can smaller, less efficient local authorities overcome this position of disadvantage? According to economic theory, they should either obtain supplementary funding or otherwise reduce the quality levels of the services provided. The aim of the present study is to evaluate the relations among different dimensions of municipal performance. The above concepts are analysed in a sample composed of 923 local authorities in Spain, each with fewer than 20 000 in habitants, using a data envelopment analysis model adapted for the particular characteristics of the local environment and repeating the analysis for two different periods, 2000 and 2005, in order to increase the consistency of the results obtained. Empirical analysis shows that the financial management and the productive efficiency of small local authorities are not interrelated, with the more cost-efficient bodies (especially for quality-related costs) being the least efficient as regards their financial condition. Moreover, our analysis of cost-efficiency for the smaller municipalities shows that revenues must be increased in order to obtain a similar level of quality to that of larger authorities.
机译:评估提供当地公共服务的成本效率的研究的一个共同发现是,在提供此类服务的过程中存在规模经济。规模较小,效率较低的地方当局如何克服这种不利地位?根据经济理论,他们应该获得补充资金,或者以其他方式降低所提供服务的质量水平。本研究的目的是评估市政绩效不同维度之间的关系。在由西班牙923个地方当局组成的样本中分析了上述概念,每个地方居民少于2万,使用的数据包络分析模型适用于当地环境的特定特征,并在两个不同时期重复进行了分析(2000年)和2005年,以增加获得的结果的一致性。实证分析表明,小型地方政府的财务管理和生产效率没有相互联系,就其财务状况而言,更具成本效益的机构(尤其是与质量相关的成本)效率最低。此外,我们对较小城市的成本效率分析表明,必须增加收入才能获得与大型政府部门相似的质量水平。

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    《Environment and planning》 |2010年第4期|P.609-629|共21页
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    Departamento de Economia Financiera y Contabilidad, Universidad de Granada, Campus de Cartuja s, 18071 Granada, Spain;

    Departamento de Economia, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus el Cristo, s, 33071 Oviedo, Spain;

    Departamento de Economia, Universidad de Oviedo, Campus el Cristo, s, 33071 Oviedo, Spain;

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