This paper presents a literature review on Data Envelopment Analysis assessments of
economic efficiency, covering methodological developments and empirical applications. We …

The efficient management of the available resources in local governments has been a topic
of high interest in the field of public sector. We provide an extensive and comprehensive …

In recent years there has been an exponential growth in the number of publications related
to theory and applications of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). Charnes, Cooper, and …

With the increase in public services offered at the local level and heightened budgetary and
financial constraints on local government, new ways of managing local public services must …

The current economic crisis is increasingly affecting the public sector, requiring stricter
control of deficits, and local administrations are not exempt from these requirements …

Considerable research has been devoted to the analysis of efficiency and of management
forms for municipal waste collection, but widely varying results have been reported. In this …

How does contracting out affect service performance? Evidence to date is mixed. We argue
that this is partially due to prior studies focusing often on whether—not how—services are …

Measuring local government efficiency is a complex task that has to take into account that
they usually operate in a heterogeneous context. Therefore, the estimation of relative …

Identifying and characterising the factors that determine why a local authority opts for a
particular way of managing its waste collection service is an important issue, warranting …

This paper has reviewed the international literature on the explaining factors of efficiency of
local governments from 1990 to June 2019. The main objective of this work is to explore the …