Assessing aggregate cost efficiency and the related policy implications for Greek local municipalities

INFOR

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 66-83

  Athanassopoulos, Antreas D ^a   Triantis, Konstantinos P ^b,c  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c System Performance Lab   (United States)

Author keywords

Data Envelopment Analysis; Fuzzy k Means Cluster Analysis; Local Greek Municipalities; Measurement and Evaluation of Local Municipality Performance; Stochastic Frontiers; Tobit Models

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST EFFECTIVENESS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; PERFORMANCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

MUNICIPALITIES PERFORMANCE;

MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING;

EID: 0032140964     PISSN: 03155986     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03155986.1998.11732347     Document Type: Article

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