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Public provision and performance : contributions from efficiency and productivity measurement

Title: Public provision and performance : contributions from efficiency and productivity measurement / edited by Jos L.T. Blank ; with contributions from C.A. Knox Lovell, Shawna Grosskopf e.a.
Publication: Amsterdam ; Oxford : Elsevier, 2000.

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Blank, J. L. T.

Description

xvii, 412 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Pt. 1. Introductory and Methodological Issues. 1. Performance Assessment in the Public Sector / Jos L. T. Blank and C. A. Knox Lovell. 2. Measuring Efficiency in the Public Sector / C. A. Knox Lovell -- Pt. 2. Health Services. 3. Comparing Techniques for Measuring the Efficiency of Australian Private Hospitals / Richard Webster, Steven Kennedy and Leanne Johnson. 4. Between Bed and Budget: The Efficiency of Dutch Hospitals / Jos L. T. Blank, Evelien Eggink and Arnold H. Q. M. Merkies. 5. Remedying Excess Capacities in French Surgery Units by Industry Reallocations: The Scope for Short and Long Term Improvements in Plant Capacity Utilization / Benoit Dervaux, Kristiaan Kerstens and Herve Leleu. 6. Efficiency of Dutch Nursing Homes: The Sensitivity of DEA-scores to Different Sets of Resource Prices / Evelien Eggink and Jos L. T. Blank -- Pt. 3. Educational Services. 7. Input Regulations and Allocative Efficiency in U.S. Public Schools / Shawna Grosskopf, Kathy J. Hayes and Lori L. Taylor / [et al.]. 8. Economics of Scale and School Consolidation in Dutch Primary School Industry / Arnold H. Q. M. Merkies -- Pt. 4. Law Enforcement. 9. Cost Efficiency in Florida Prisons / Kwabena Gyimah-Brempong. 10. The Revenue Approach to Dutch Police Departments / Frank P. van Tulder. 11. Efficiency of Local Police Districts: A New South Wales Experience / Andrew Hughes and Suthathip Yaisawarng -- Pt. 5. Regional Services. 12. What Is Known about Municipal Efficiency? The Belgian Case and Beyond / Bruno De Borger and Kristiaan Kerstens. 13. Efficiencies in United States Metropolitan Areas / Harold O. Fried and J. Douglas Klein -- Pt. 6. Concluding Remarks. 14. Efficiency Research in the Public Sector: Some Final Considerations / Jos L. T. Blank.

ISBN

0444504834
9780444504838

LCCN

2001278421

OCLC

ocm45308418
45308418
SCSB-1283400

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library