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Efficiency of European universities : a comparison of peers
Herberholz, Lars; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2020
The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
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The efficiency of educational production : a comparison of the Nordic countries with other OECD countries
Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter; Heinesen, Eskil; Tranæs, Torben - 2015
Focusing in particular on upper secondary education, this paper examines whether the relatively high level of expenditure on education in the Nordic countries is matched by high output from the educational sector, both in terms of student enrolment and indicators of output quality in the form of...
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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 output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...
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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...
Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit’s available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the...
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Measuring tax burden efficiency in OECD countries : an international comparison
Afonso, António; Montes, Ana Patricia; Domínguez … - 2024
In this paper, we estimate the potential tax burden in a panel data set comprising OECD countries over the period 2000-2021. To this end, we use non-parametric and parametric techniques: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier Analysis (SFA). In this way, it will be possible for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015065230
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Fiscal decentralization and public sector efficiency : evidence from OECD countries
Adam, Antonis (contributor); Delēs, Manthos D. (contributor) - 2008
reflect the governmental goals of economic performance and stability. In turn, using a novel technique that merges the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748486
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Local property tax reform and municipality spending efficiency
Afonso, António; Venâncio, Ana - 2022
We investigate the effect on municipality spending efficiency of a local property tax reform, which reduced in 2008 the upper limit of the property tax. We compute municipality efficiency scores via data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) from 2005 to 2011, and then we rely in a panel data set to...
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Genetic diversity and performance : evidence from football data
Beine, Michel; Peracchi, Silvia; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2021
. In this paper, we assess empirically the connection between genetic diversity and the performance of sport teams … between the genetic scores of every players'origins in the team. Genetic endowments for each player are recovered using a … matching algorithm based on family names. Performance is measured at both the unilateral and bilateral level. Identification of …
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Deregulation, entry of foreign banks and bank efficiency in Australia
Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Williams, Barry - 2002
This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 restrictions upon foreign bank entry and foreign ownership have been affectively abolished. Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Malmquist Indices, we find that the new...
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Awareness reduces racial bias
Pope, Devin G.; Price, Joseph; Wolfers, Justin - 2014
Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following the release of an academic study. Using new data, we...
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