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Does Envelopment Through Data Advantage Call for New Regulation?

Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2021

Envelopment is an effective form of market entry that facilitates competition among platforms. Nevertheless, many commentators have focused on the anticompetitive potential of envelopment, and some have argued for regulation of platforms because of that concern. These calls for regulation are...

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The Efficiency of Educational Production: A Comparison of the Nordic Countries with other OECD Countries

Bogetoft, Peter; Heinesen, Eskil; Tranaes, Torben - 2015

Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...

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Efficiency of Universities and Research-Focused Institutions Worldwide : An Empirical DEA Investigation Based on Institutional Publication Numbers and Estimated Academic Staff Numb...

Bornmann, Lutz - 2020

One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit's available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem...

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Sample selectivity and the validity of international student achievement tests in economic research

Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010

Critics of international student comparisons argue that results may be influenced by differences in the extent to which countries adequately sample their entire student populations. In this research note, we show that larger exclusion and non-response rates are related to better country average...

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Performance rating and yardstick competition in social service provision

Revelli, Federico - 2004

This paper investigates whether national evaluation of decentralised government performance tends, by lessening local information spill-overs, to reduce the scope for local performance comparisons and consequently to lower the extent of spatial auto-correlation among local government...

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Teacher quality and incentives theoretical and empirical effects of standards on teacher quality

Juerges, Hendrik; Richter, Wolfram F.; Schneider, Kerstin - 2004

Applying the theory of yardstick competition to the schooling system, we show that it is optimal to have central tests … of student achievement and to engage in benchmarking because it raises the quality of teaching. This is true even if … measured so that it becomes comparable, teachers will increase their effort. The theory is tested using the German PISA-E data …

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Optimal central bank design : benchmarks for the ECB

Berger, Helge - 2006

The paper discusses key elements of optimal central bank design and applies its findings to the Eurosystem. A particular focus is on the size of monetary policy committees, the degree of centralization, and the representation of relative economic size in the voting rights of regional (or...

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Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency: evidence from OECD countries

Adam, Antonis; Delis, Manthos D.; Kammas, Pantelis - 2008

This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data envelopment analysis on a panel of 21 OECD countries over the period 1970-2000 to construct two alternative PSE indicators that reflect the governmental goals of economic...

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The Cost of Well-being

Pettini, Anna; Patrizii, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015

Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...

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Super-Efficiency of Education Institutions: An Application to Economics Departments

Gnewuch, Matthias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2018

This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go beyond the heavily used data envelopment analysis and utilize partial frontier analysis - specifically order-α and order-m - which addresses some of the drawbacks of the standard...

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