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Efficiency in the Public Sector

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Editors:
  1. Kevin J. Fox

    1. University of New South Wales, Australia

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Part of the book series: Studies in Productivity and Efficiency (SIPE, volume 1)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Kevin J. Fox
      Pages 1-7

  3. Issues in Public Sector Efficiency Evaluation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Performance Assessment in the Public Sector

      • C. A. Knox Lovell
      Pages 11-35

    3. Why Have the Returns to Microeconomic Reform been so Disappointing?

      • John Quiggin
      Pages 37-60

    4. Performance Measurement and Resource Allocation

      • Suthathip Yaisawarng
      Pages 61-81

    5. A Property-Rights Perspective of Efficiency: Privatizing the Commons

      • R. Quentin Grafton, Dale Squires
      Pages 83-100

  4. Efficiency Analysis in the Public Sector — Advances in Theory and Practice

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 101-101
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    2. The Deadweight Costs of Capital Taxation in Australia

      • W. Erwin Diewert, Denis Lawrence
      Pages 103-167

    3. A Comparison of Alternative Productivity Growth Measures: With Application to Electricity Generation

      • Tim Coelli
      Pages 169-200

    4. Integrating Consumer Satisfaction into Productivity Indexes

      • Rolf Färe, Shawna Grosskopf, Pontus Roos
      Pages 201-217

    5. Productive Structure and Efficiency of Public Hospitals

      • Catherine J. Morrison Paul
      Pages 219-248

    6. Measuring Output of Hospital Services

      • Pontus Roos
      Pages 249-271

    7. Efficiency in the Provision of Municipal Nursing- and Home-Care Services: The Norwegian Experience

      • Espen Erlandsen, Finn R. Førsund
      Pages 273-300

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 301-302
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About this book

Regardless of where we live, the management of the public sector impacts on our lives. Hence, we all have an interest, one way or another, in the achievement of efficiency and productivity improvements in the activities of the public sector. For a government agency that provides a public service, striving for unreasonable benchmark targets for efficiency may lead to a deterioration of service quality, along with an increase in stress and job dissatisfaction for public sector employees. Slack performance targets may lead to gross inefficiency, poor quality of service, and low self-esteem for employees. In the case of regulation, inappropriate policies can lead to unprecedented disasters. Examples include the decimation of fish stocks through mismanagement of fisheries, and power blackouts through inappropriate restrictions on electricity generators and distributors. Efficient taxation policies minimise the tax bill for citizens.
In all of these cases, efficient management is required, although it is often unclear how to assess this efficiency. In this volume, several authors consider various aspects and contexts of performance measurement. Hence, this volume represents a unique collection of advances in efficiency assessment for the public sector by leading researchers in the field.
Efficiency in the Public Sector is divided into two sections. The first is titled "Issues in Public Sector Efficiency Evaluation" and comprises of chapters 1-4. The second section is titled "Efficiency Analysis in the Public Sector - Advances in Theory and Practice." This division is somewhat arbitrary, in the sense there are significant overlapping themes in both sections. However, it serves to separate chapters that can be characterised as dealing with broader issues (Section I), from chapters that can be characterised as focusing on specific theoretical problems and empirical cases (Section II).

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of New South Wales, Australia

    Kevin J. Fox

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Efficiency in the Public Sector

  • Editors: Kevin J. Fox

  • Series Title: Studies in Productivity and Efficiency

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3592-5

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-7563-0Published: 30 November 2001

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4923-3Published: 03 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4757-3592-5Published: 17 April 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 302

  • Topics: Operations Research/Decision Theory, Microeconomics, Management

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