We address the efficiency of expenditure in education provision by comparing the output (PISA results) from the … analysis output scores on nondiscretionary variables, both using Tobit and a single and double bootstrap procedure, we show …

bootstrap analysis exploits information contained in these reaction functions and constructs counterfactual distributions of …

variance of the process. The latter is derived through bootstrap exercises using the models alone or pooled together. The …, the bootstrap exercises point to confidence bands close to 1 per cent around the estimated value. JEL Classification: C11 …

main contribution is the use of bootstrap methods, which offer more insight into the Feenstra method and can explain why … researchers applying it may tend to find high estimates. The bootstrap not only allows us to obtain considerably less biased …

models. They outperform the best performing linear models for “real-time” and “bootstrap” forecasts for service indices for …

based approach to large data sets for European and U.S. banks, we offer new empirical evidence that efficiency plays a key … tests to establish the link between competition and measures of profit efficiency in banking, and find that competition … indeed increases bank efficiency. Second, building on these results, we examine the relation between the Boone indicator …

We compute public sector performance (PSP) and efficiency (PSE) indicators, comprising a composite and seven sub …, distribution, and stabilisation. The input and output efficiency of public sectors across countries is then measured via a non …