minimum electricity consumption is around 14.6 degree C for the world and it is higher in urban and more industrial areas; and …Past studies on the relationship between electricity consumption and temperature have primarily focused on individual …, overcoming the data constraint by using grid-level night light and temperature data. Mostly generated by electricity and recorded …

We compile the first large cross-country panel dataset of public sector performance and efficiency, encompassing 114 … lower efficiency in the respective sector. Moreover, we find that richer countries exhibit better public sector performance … and efficiency, and that institutional and demographic factors also play a significant role …

economic growth and efficiency, using panel data for 40 countries which reformed their financial systems. Financial sector … reform is hypothesized to affect economic growth and efficiency through three main channels: the real interest rate … representing the interest cost of capital, the volume of intermediation, and financial sector efficiency. The results indicate that …

its operational efficiency. Potential trade-offs between legitimacy and efficiency exist for any public institution but … legitimacy and efficiency …

satellite-recorded nighttime lights as an additional measurement of true GDP per capita, we provide a statistical framework, in … results for measurement error models to identify and estimate the nonlinear relationship between nighttime lights and true GDP …