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What Exogenous Factors Generate Municipal Inefficiency? An Empirical Investigation of the Determinants of Input Excess in Local Government
Public Performance & Management Review ( IF 2.806 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-31 , DOI: 10.1080/15309576.2021.1873153
Carolyn-Thi Thanh Dung Tran 1 , Brian Dollery 1
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Abstract

A substantial empirical literature has investigated the performance of local authorities in a host of countries across the world. While this body of knowledge has made a significant contribution to our understanding of local government performance, including the role played by ‘non-discretionary’ environmental factors, much remains to be done. In an attempt to address some of the shortcomings of extant studies on the determinants of municipal performance, especially in terms of their treatment of environmental factors, in this paper we investigate the technical efficiency of local government in South Australia (SA) by examining input slacks (input excess) in the different municipal services However, in contrast to existing empirical work in the area, which is focused almost exclusively on the direct impact of determinants on efficiency scores, we examine the effects of determinants on input excess, in order to determine which factors stimulate local councils to perform inefficiently, then internalize their influence and filter out unobserved biases via a bootstrapping methodology to evaluate the managerial inefficiency of SA local government. We find that the efficiency of SA local councils is on average 0.734, implying that local councils could potentially improve their performance by 0.267 to reach the full efficiency. After filtering out the influence of environmental factors on inputs slacks and unobserved disturbances with the bootstrapping method, the residual inefficiency can be attributed to managerial inefficiency. Various policy implications are then considered.



中文翻译:

哪些外在因素导致市政效率低下?地方政府投入过剩决定因素的实证研究

摘要

大量的实证文献调查了世界上许多国家地方当局的表现。虽然这一知识体系对我们理解地方政府绩效做出了重大贡献,包括“非自由裁量的”环境因素所起的作用,但仍有许多工作要做。为了解决现有关于市政绩效决定因素的研究的一些缺陷,特别是在处理环境因素方面,在本文中,我们通过检查投入松弛来调查南澳大利亚(SA)地方政府的技术效率(投入过剩)在不同的市政服务中 然而,与该地区现有的实证工作相比,该工作几乎完全专注于决定因素对效率得分的直接影响,我们研究了决定因素对投入过剩的影响,以确定哪些因素会刺激地方议会低效执行,然后通过引导方法将它们的影响内化并过滤掉未观察到的偏见,以评估南澳地方政府的管理效率低下。我们发现南澳地方议会的效率平均为 0.734,这意味着地方议会有可能将其绩效提高 0.267 以达到充分效率。用自助法过滤掉环境因素对投入松弛和未观察到的干扰的影响后,剩余的低效率可以归因于管理效率低下。然后考虑各种政策影响。为了确定哪些因素会刺激地方议会效率低下,然后通过引导方法将其影响内化并过滤掉未观察到的偏见,以评估南澳地方政府的管理效率低下。我们发现南澳地方议会的效率平均为 0.734,这意味着地方议会有可能将其绩效提高 0.267 以达到充分效率。用自助法过滤掉环境因素对投入松弛和未观察到的干扰的影响后,剩余的低效率可以归因于管理效率低下。然后考虑各种政策影响。为了确定哪些因素会刺激地方议会效率低下,然后通过引导方法将其影响内化并过滤掉未观察到的偏见,以评估南澳地方政府的管理效率低下。我们发现南澳地方议会的效率平均为 0.734,这意味着地方议会有可能将其绩效提高 0.267 以达到充分效率。用自助法过滤掉环境因素对投入松弛和未观察到的干扰的影响后,剩余的低效率可以归因于管理效率低下。然后考虑各种政策影响。然后内化他们的影响并通过引导方法过滤掉未观察到的偏见,以评估南澳地方政府的管理效率低下。我们发现南澳地方议会的效率平均为 0.734,这意味着地方议会有可能将其绩效提高 0.267 以达到充分效率。用自助法过滤掉环境因素对投入松弛和未观察到的干扰的影响后,剩余的低效率可以归因于管理效率低下。然后考虑各种政策影响。然后内化他们的影响并通过引导方法过滤掉未观察到的偏见,以评估南澳地方政府的管理效率低下。我们发现南澳地方议会的效率平均为 0.734,这意味着地方议会有可能将其绩效提高 0.267 以达到充分效率。用自助法过滤掉环境因素对投入松弛和未观察到的干扰的影响后,剩余的低效率可以归因于管理效率低下。然后考虑各种政策影响。用自助法过滤掉环境因素对投入松弛和未观察到的干扰的影响后,剩余的低效率可以归因于管理效率低下。然后考虑各种政策影响。在用引导法过滤掉环境因素对投入松弛和未观察到的干扰的影响后,剩余的低效率可以归因于管理效率低下。然后考虑各种政策影响。

更新日期:2021-01-31
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