technology shocks in explaining aggregate fluctuations. To this end we estimate the model's posterior density using Markov …

important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as …

efficiency change and technical change. The data we use is from Sweden and for their pulp and paper industry, which is heavily …

, we employ an advanced non-parametric efficiency model to study the public sector (cost) efficiency implications of such … distortions. Using a unique dataset covering the Czech regions over the 2007-2014 period, we find that the efficiency of public … power ("party donors"). We link this efficiency difference to two underlying mechanisms: i.e. shifts in procurement contract …

This study examines the effects of the tax structure composition for public sector efficiency in a sample of 41 … indicators and use them as outputs to compute data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency scores under different orientation … different taxes for public efficiency in a panel regression specification. We find that tax effects are significantly different …

This paper empirically links the efficiency and performance assessment of the general government, proxied by efficiency … scores, to the trust in government. Government spending efficiency scores are first computed via data envelopment analysis … (DEA). Then, relying on panel data and instrumental variable approaches, we estimate the effect of public sector efficiency …

We evaluate the impact of government spending efficiency on fiscal sustainability for a panel of 35 OECD countries … revenues to changes in government spending. Next, we make use of so-called government spending efficiency scores, which … the input efficiency scores obtained, countries' fiscal balance and fiscal sustainability is directly improved by the use …