Revealed yardstick competition: Local government efficiency patterns in Norway

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 62, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 121-134

  Revelli, Federico ^a   Tovmo, Per ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

Author keywords

Local government efficiency; Spatial auto correlation; Yardstick competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447100504     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2006.11.004     Document Type: Article

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