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Balancing investments in public service personnel and its healthcare provision output : an efficiency analysis for Brazilian municipalities

Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2013

regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …

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The Role of Local Governments’ Efficiency in Decentralized Public Service Delivery : Evidence from a Randomized Intervention in Rural Russia

Beuermann, Diether W.; Amelina, Maria - 2011

satisfaction is ambiguous, little evidence has been provided regarding the role that the efficiency of local governments may play … towards enhancing local governments’ efficiency in three regions of rural Russia (Adyghea, Penza and Perm) at the onset of a … public services. Rather, it appears that enhancing local managerial efficiency in delivering public services is a long …

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Active and passive waste in government spending: evidence from a policy experiment

Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Valletti, Tommaso M. - In: The American economic review 99 (2009) 4, pp. 1278-1308

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Will privatization reduce costs?

Lindqvist, Erik (contributor) - 2007

I develop a model of public sector contracting based on the multitask framework by Holmström and Milgrom (1991). In this model, an agent can put effort into increasing the quality of a service or reducing costs. Being residual claimants, private owners have stronger incentives to cut costs than...

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The organisation of services of general interest in Finland

Willner, Johan; Grönblom, Sonja - 2016

Like in most other European countries, services of general interest in Finland have in recent years been subject to competition, increased private provision, and in some cases privatisation. This development is motivated by expected cost reductions, by EU regulations, by ideology and fashion,...

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Will Privatization Reduce Costs?

Lindqvist, Erik - 2011

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Between Agora and Shopping Mall

Falkinger, Josef - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalization are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...

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Between agora and shopping mall

Falkinger, Josef - 2008

Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalisation are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...

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Editoriale: “La PA digitale: un ossimoro italiano?”

Matteucci, Nicola; Seri, Paolo - 2015

This is the Editorial of a special issue of the journal Prisma on: "Innovation in Public Administration: Technologies, Services and Outcomes".

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Between Agora and Shopping Mall

Falkinger, Josef - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008

Advertisements provide consumers with knowledge about private products, whereas political information is required to provide voters with knowledge of public issues. Modern information technologies and globalisation are increasing the exposure of individuals to information. Goods advertising is...

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