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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 …
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Efficient Level of Seps Licensing
Langus, Gregor; Lipatov, Vilen - 2022
We study the question whether a holder of standard essential patents (SEPs) should be allowed to choose the level in the value chain at which to offer a FRAND license to its SEPs. We give a pos-itive answer to this question for two reasons. First, the SEP holder and the social planner tend to...
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Are Fiscal Consolidation Episodes Helpful for Public Sector Efficiency?
Afonso, António; Alves, José - 2022
We assess the consequences of fiscal consolidation episodes on public sector efficiency (scores) for 35 OECD countries … for the 2007-2020 period. We find that fiscal consolidations improve public sector efficiency and results are robust … across efficiency models. Moreover, peripheral euro-area economies and economies with debt-to-GDP ratios between 60% and 90 …
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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
the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012839362
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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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How to Measure Research Efficiency in Higher Education? Research Grants vs. Publication Output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …
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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 Numbe...
Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine; de Moya Anegón, Félix; … - 2020
the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012207922
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Revenue forecasting practices : differences across countries and consequences for forecasting performance
Buettner, Thiess; Kauder, Björn - 2009
This paper reviews the practice and performance of revenue forecasting in selected OECD countries. While the mean forecast errors are small in most countries, the precision of the forecasts measured by the standard deviation of the forecast error differs substantially across countries. Based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271858
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Determinants of house prices in Central and Eastern Europe
Égert, Balázs; Mihaljek, Dubravko - 2007
This paper studies the determinants of house prices in eight transition economies of central and eastern Europe (CEE) and 19 OECD countries. The main question addressed is whether the conventional fundamental determinants of house prices, such as GDP per capita, real interest rates, housing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273771
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Cross-Country Evidence on Teacher Performance Pay
Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
The general-equilibrium effects of performance-related teacher pay include long-term incentive and teacher-sorting mechanisms that usually elude experimental studies but are captured in cross-country comparisons. Combining country-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international...
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