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Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change: Efficiency and Economies of Scale in German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2007

German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We assess these local governments? vulnerability to the fiscal consequences of this demographic decline through two means (using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297916

Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2008

?gute? und effiziente Politik einzufordern. Diese Aussage besitzt jedoch nur dann Gültigkeit, wenn zwei entscheidende … Annahmen erfüllt sind: Zum einen sollte das soziale Engagement das politische Bewusstsein und Interesse wecken, zum anderen … Gemeinde) und nicht auf einzelne Teilbereiche wie beispielsweise der Abfallbeseitigung, der Verwaltung oder des Straßenbaus …

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Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097578

Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change: Efficiency and Economies of Scale in German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097928

Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change : Efficiency and Economies of Scale in German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - 2011

German municipalities are expected to suffer from (often significant) population losses in the upcoming decades. We assess these local governments' vulnerability to the fiscal consequences of this demographic decline through two means (using a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049275

Evaluating efficient public good provision : theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries

De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2010

Produktionsfaktoren (beispielsweise Arbeit und Kapital) zur Erzeugung eines Dienstleistungspotenzials (beispielsweise Öffnungszeiten … bezüglich der öffentlichen produktiven (In-)Effizienz und ihrer Determinanten. Daher wird in dem Paper ein speziell … Einstellung der Gemeindeverwaltungen, Wohlstand und Dichte der ortsansässigen Bevölkerung, sowie die Art der …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009409124

Evaluating efficient public good provision : theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries

De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - In: Journal of urban economics 69 (2011) 3, pp. 319-327

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Competition in the political arena and local government performance

Ashworth, John; Geys, Benny; Heyndels, Bruno; Wille, Fanny - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 19/21, pp. 2264-2276

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Evaluating efficient public good provision : theory and evidence from a generalised conditional efficiency model for public libraries

De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008933730

Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency

Titl, Vitezslav; De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2019

Firms' political donations can induce distortions in the allocation of public procurement contracts. In this article, we employ an advanced non-parametric efficiency model to study the public sector (cost) efficiency implications of such distortions. Using a unique dataset covering the Czech...

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