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Klappentext Governments are searching for possibilities to improve efficiency and reduce cost of the public sector services. There is a gap between efficiency research and policy implementation of the results. This book aims to bridge this gap. It provides a summary of research, an overview of methods, an insight of factors affecting efficiency. Zusammenfassung Governments are searching for possibilities to improve efficiency and reduce cost of the public sector services. There is a gap between efficiency research and policy implementation of the results. This book aims to bridge this gap. It provides a summary of research! an overview of methods! an insight of factors affecting efficiency. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. Acknowledgments. Abstract of the Book. Part One: Introductory and Methodological Issues. Performance assessment in the public sector (J.L.T. Blank! C.A. Knox Lovell). Measuring efficiency in the public sector (C.A. Knox Lovell). Part Two: Health Services. Comparing techniques for measuring the efficiency of Australian private hospitals (R. Webster! S.Kennedy and L. Johnson). Between bed and budget. The efficiency of Dutch hospitals (J.L.T. Blank! E. Eggink and A.H.Q.M. Merkies). Remedying excess capacities in French surgery units by industry reallocations: the scope for short and long term improvements in plant capacity utilization (B. Dervaux! K. Kerstens and H. Leleu). Efficiency of Dutch nursing homes: the sensitivity of DEA-scores to different sets of resource prices (E. Eggink! J.L.T. Blank). Part Three: Educational Services. Input regulations and allocative efficiency in US public schools (S. Grosskopf et al.). Economics of scale and school consolidation in Dutch primary school industry (A.H.Q.M. Merkies). Part Four: Law Enforcement. Cost efficiency in Florida prisons (K. Gyimah-Brempong). The revenue approach to Dutch police departments (E.P. van Tulder). Efficiency of local police districts: a New South Wales experience (A. Hughes! S. Yaisawamg). Part Five: Regional Services. What is known about municipal efficiency? The Belgian case and beyond (B. De Borger! K. Kerstens). Efficiencies in Unites States metropolitan areas (H.O. Fried! J.D. Klein). Part Six: Concluding Remarks. Efficiency research in the public sector: some final considerations (J.L.T. Blank). Name index. Subject index. Biographies. Correspondence. ...
