Does Intermunicipal Cooperation Increase Efficiency? Evidence from the Hessian Wastewater Sector
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Keywords
municipal cooperation; local public finance; efficiency; DEA; sewage disposal; interkommunale Kooperation; Kommunalfinanzen; Effizienz; DEA; Abwasserentsorgung;JEL classification:
- D23 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Organizational Behavior; Transaction Costs; Property Rights
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- D73 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Bureaucracy; Administrative Processes in Public Organizations; Corruption
- H72 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Budget and Expenditures
- R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis
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