Police and the Efficiency of Local Council Partnerships. An Application of DEA

Journal title SCIENZE REGIONALI
Author/s Barbara Ermini, Samuele Salvucci
Publishing Year 2011 Issue 2011/1
Language Italian Pages 28 P. 35-62 File size 432 KB
DOI 10.3280/SCRE2011-001002
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This paper examines the efficiency of police as provided by Unione di Comuni (UdC). By DEA techniques, it emerges that Comuni in UdC experience higher scale efficiency compared to Comuni not associated while their overall technical efficiency is lower. A simulation of the merge hypothesis suggests that the UdCs have encountered difficulties to harmonize the production technology of the associated Comuni. They probably fail to organize the global resources accruing from intercommunality in the most efficient manner.

Keywords: Data envelopment analysis, intercommunal cooperation, police

Jel codes: C61, H77, L25

Barbara Ermini, Samuele Salvucci, La funzione di polizia municipale e l’efficienza dell’Unione di Comuni. Una analisi mediante DEA in "SCIENZE REGIONALI " 1/2011, pp 35-62, DOI: 10.3280/SCRE2011-001002