A conceptual note on scale economies, size economies and scope economies in Australian local government

Urban Policy and Research

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 271-282

  Dollery, Brian ^a   Fleming, Euan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Amalgamation; Local government; Scale economies; Scope economies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929998606     PISSN: 08111146     EISSN: 14767244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08111140600704111     Document Type: Article

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