Economies of scale in local government services: a meta analysis / Siew King Ting, Rene Villano and Brian Dollery
In this paper, a meta-regression analysis is presented by 38 empirical studies on the size of scale in various local government services. Our results show that income classification was the most important factor in determining size of scale and all selected local government services recorded decreas...
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