Measuring government performance an overview of dysfunctional responses

The Performance of Performance Standards

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 203-229

  Courty, Pascal ^a   Marschke, Gerald ^b,c,d  

^a Centre for Economic Policy Research   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^d IZA   (Germany)

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