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 …

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 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 estimate how the tax reform affected the efficiency scores. Results of the …

We assess the consequences of fiscal consolidation episodes on public sector efficiency (scores) for 35 OECD countries … for the 2007-2020 period. We find that fiscal consolidations improve public sector efficiency and results are robust … across efficiency models. Moreover, peripheral euro-area economies and economies with debt-to-GDP ratios between 60% and 90 …

providers cannot beat private providers in terms of aggregate efficiency. We finally design a transfer scheme that can make a …