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 …

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. …

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 …

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 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 …

indicators and use them as outputs to compute data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency scores under different orientation …This study examines the effects of the tax structure composition for public sector efficiency in a sample of 41 … developing countries for the period between 1997-2019. We start by calculating Public Sector Performance (PSP) composite …

This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data … reflect the governmental goals of economic performance and stability. In turn, using a novel technique that merges the … specifications, we contend that PSE is increasing with fiscal decentralization. -- public sector efficiency ; fiscal decentralization …

upper limit of the property tax. We compute municipality efficiency scores via data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) from 2005 to …We investigate the effect on municipality spending efficiency of a local property tax reform, which reduced in 2008 the … 2011, and then we rely in a panel data set to estimate how the tax reform affected the efficiency scores. Results of the …

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 …