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 …

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 …

education. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compare (benchmark) the Nordic countries with a relevant group of rich OECD … countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse … different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students …

-2021. To this end, we use non-parametric and parametric techniques: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier …

efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014. The novelty of our approach lies in its extended coverage of …. Exploring potential efficiency drivers, we uncover considerable effect heterogeneity between subject clusters, which is … seek external funding are largely identified to be primary efficiency drivers. …

Envelopment Analysis efficiency scores. For the Public Sector Performance composite indicator, we use the annual data of socio …We assess the public spending efficiency of 20 Latin American countries over the period of 2000-2019, computing Data … average they could have used 27% less spending to achieve the same levels of performance. On the other hand, governments could …

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

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 … efficiently indicate how governments can maintain their level of performance whilst using fewer inputs. Our results show that for …

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 examine the relationship between public sector efficiency and government spending, to assess public resource …