We assess the public spending efficiency of 20 Latin American countries over the period of 2000-2019, computing Data … Envelopment Analysis efficiency scores. For the Public Sector Performance composite indicator, we use the annual data of socio …

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 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 …

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 …

, France, Italy, Latvia, Slovak Republic, and Sweden. …

Italy’s domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism …

death), hospital utilization, and medical expenditure in Greece during the period 1995 - 2010. The estimates indicate that … increases in the number of hospital days. Real per capita pharmaceutical expenditure increased rapidly during this period, but … 62% of the increase in pharmaceutical expenditure was offset by a reduction in hospital expenditure attributable to …