Local territorial reform and regional spending efficiency

We study the effect of a Portuguese structural reform, which reduced the number of parishes, on municipality spending efficiency between 2011 and 2016. We build a composite output indicator and use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compute efficiency scores. Then, we use a second-stage regression t...

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Main Author: Afonso, António (author)
Other Authors: Venâncio, Ana (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2022
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/25499
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:www.repository.utl.pt:10400.5/25499