Journal
SOCIO-ECONOMIC PLANNING SCIENCES
Volume 61, Issue -, Pages 102-113Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.seps.2017.01.006
Keywords
DEA; Efficiency; Local governments; Composite indicator; Tobit regression
Funding
- University of Pisa
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The paper presents a Data Envelopment Analysis aimed at studying the efficiency of Tuscan municipalities' public expenditure. Five strategic functions of Tuscan municipalities are first considered carrying out a non-aggregate analysis; then the overall expenditure composition of each municipality and the global spending efficiency are analysed by a proposed composite indicator. The main determinants affecting the municipalities' efficiency were further investigated. In particular, the obtained results may be consistently included in the long-standing debate on the municipal size, proving that the bigger the municipality, the greater its level of public expenditure efficiency. (c) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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