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Benchmarking the performance of US Municipalities.
Empirical Economics ( IF 1.9 ) Pub Date : 2021-02-10 , DOI: 10.1007/s00181-021-02026-2
Caitlin T O'Loughlin 1 , Paul W Wilson 2
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This paper examines the performance of US municipal governments over 1997-2012, and hence prior to, during and following the financial crisis of 2007-2008. Fully nonparametric methods are employed to estimate technical efficiencies of cities utilizing recently developed statistical results. The results strongly suggest non-convexity of the local governments' production set, calling into question the results of previous studies examining municipal efficiency that do not allow for non-convexity. We find strong evidence that production sets for municipal governments are different across time and across regions of the USA. Overall, we find that municipalities in the Midwest and South on average out-performed those in the Northeast and West in terms of both efficiency and productivity, and both before and after the financial crisis.

中文翻译:

对美国市政当局的绩效进行基准测试。

本文考察了美国市政府在 1997-2012 年的表现,以及在 2007-2008 年金融危机之前、期间和之后的表现。利用最近开发的统计结果,采用完全非参数方法来估计城市的技术效率。结果强烈表明地方政府生产集的非凸性,这对先前研究不允许非凸性的市政效率的研究结果提出质疑。我们发现强有力的证据表明,市政府的生产集在美国不同时间和不同地区是不同的。总体而言,我们发现中西部和南部城市在效率和生产力方面的平均表现优于东北部和西部城市,无论是在金融危机之前还是之后。
更新日期:2021-02-10
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