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 …

We examine the relationship between public sector efficiency and government spending, to assess public resource … outcomes across various public sector performance (PSP) indicators. We compute government spending efficiency using Data … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to subsequently assess the relationship between efficiency and the growth rate of public expenditure …

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 …

We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we … empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … spending efficiency scores via data envelopment analysis. Second, relying on panel data and impulse response approaches, we …

Sustainability and efficiency are potentially conflicting social objectives in natural resource management. We propose … addition, the mechanism achieves efficiency, i.e. it maximizes the expected present value of resource rents that accrue to …

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 …