ABSTRACT

While a voluminous empirical literature has investigated municipal efficiency, much less attention has focused on the impact of administrative intensity on municipal performance. In this paper we seek to contribute to the empirical literature by examining the relationship between operational efficiency and administrative intensity in the Victorian local government system over the period 2014/15 to 2018/19 using a second stage bootstrapping Data Envelopment Analysis fractional regression model. We find that administrative intensity negatively affects the performance of local councils for the bias-corrected efficiency model. Moreover, administrative intensity exhibits a U-shaped relationship with municipal efficiency. We also find that administrative intensity has a differential impact on the efficiency of rural councils in contrast to urban councils. Various public policy implications are considered.

摘要

虽然大量实证文献研究了市政效率，但很少有人关注行政强度对市政绩效的影响。在本文中，我们使用第二阶段引导数据包络分析分数回归模型，研究 2014/15 至 2018/19 年间维多利亚州地方政府系统的运营效率和行政强度之间的关系，试图为实证文献做出贡献。我们发现，行政强度对偏差校正效率模型的地方议会的绩效产生负面影响。此外，行政强度与市政效率呈现U型关系。我们还发现，与城市议会相比，行政强度对农村议会的效率有不同的影响。考虑了各种公共政策影响。