Poland over 1995-2015, we show that rushed privatization has negative efficiency, scale and employment effects relative to … stronger than its negative effect on efficiency. Our results suggest that when policy makers resort to rushed privatization …, increase or decrease firms' efficiency, scale of operation (size) and employment. Using a large panel of firm-level data from …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier …

We study school choice and school efficiency in terms of secondary school completion test scores by utilizing a unique …'s expenditure as a determinant of its efficiency per unit of cost. We find that when expenditure is not included, the trust …

unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

experiment whether gossip affects the efficiency of human interactions. We let subjects play a trust game. Third parties observe … possibility of gossip is highly efficiency-increasing compared to a situation without any gossip. In two further control … treatments, we show that the mere fact of being observed by third parties cannot explain the efficiency-increasing effect of …

We estimate a measure of well-being efficiency that assesses countries' ability to transform inputs into subjective … Analysis to a sample of 126 countries. Efficiency scores reveal that high ranking subjective well-being countries, such as the … Nordics, are not strictly the most efficient ones. Also, the scores are uncorrelated with economic efficiency. This suggests …

We study the efficiency in health systems generated by community health teams, a common strategy in low- and middle …