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Type Working Paper
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Improving efficiency through consolidation of jurisdictions? Evidence from the cantons of Switzerland
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Authors
  • Philippe K Widmer
  • George Elias
  • Peter Zweifel
Language
  • English
Institution University of Zurich
Series Name Working paper series / Department of Economics
Number 85
ISSN 1664-7041
Number of Pages 19
Date 2012
Abstract Text The purpose of this paper is to analyze the optimal scale of local jurisdictions (cantons) in Switzerland applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the years 2000 to 2004. Aggregate output performance indicators for four local government activities (administration, education, health, and transportation) are used to measure technical and scale efficiency and to derive DEA scores. Results show that these public services fail to exhibit economies of scale, undermining quests for centralization of public good provision while suggesting the possibility of Tiebout competition.
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Keywords DEA, efficiency measurement, economies of scale, public good provision, Switzerland, Gerichtsbarkeit, Staatstätigkeit, Effizienzmessung, Skalenertrag, Öffentliches Gut, Schweiz