An analysis of Production and Cost Structure of Japanese Local Governments

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We try to analyze a production and cost structure of local governments in Japan. A big stream of privatization and deregulation has come to not only public and government corporation but also local governments themselves. Facing this stream, it is necessary to find out production and cost structure of local governments in Japan. Otherwise, we cannot select governments' jobs those should be privatized and deregulated. We try to solve these problems by the estimation of translog type input distance function including "publicness".