Efficiency in the Production of Rural Road Services: The Case of New England Towns

Steven Deller () and John M. Halstead

Land Economics, 1994, vol. 70, issue 2, 247-259

Abstract: An analysis of size and managerial efficiency of northern New England towns in the production of rural road services is reported. A stochastic cost frontier was used as the normative efficiency reference set. Empirical results provide evidence of economies of size in the production of road service in New England and that size inefficiencies are present. Results also suggest that managerial inefficiencies, or input use inefficiencies, are present and costs may be 40 percent higher than necessary. At issue is the effectiveness of current institutional arrangements: small town governments may best match local demand with services, but at high cost.

Date: 1994
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (19)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3146326
A subscription is required to access pdf files. Pay per article is available.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:uwp:landec:v:70:y:1994:i:2:p:247-259

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Land Economics from University of Wisconsin Press
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().