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AUSTRALIAN ECONOMIC REVIEW
Volume 46, Issue 3, Pages 300-311Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8462.2013.12015.x
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The state government of Western Australia has suggested there are economies of scale in local government service delivery and that council amalgamations would allow substantial efficiencies to be realised. In this article, the Data Envelopment Analysis method is used to measure efficiency at 98 local councils in Western Australia in 2009 and 2010. Although many councils were found to be operating under increasing returns to scale, many others were found to be operating under decreasing returns to scale. This suggests there is room for either scaling down or expanding for some local councils to achieve optimal scale.
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