Sizing the government

Public Choice

Volumn 145, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 39-55

  de Witte, Kristof ^a,b   Moesen, Wim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Armey curve; Data envelopment analysis; Government size; Public sector performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955844500     PISSN: 00485829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11127-009-9527-7     Document Type: Article

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