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Managing Public Expenditure : Some Emerging Policy Issues and A Framework for Analysis
Atkinson, Paul - 2001
performance of public expenditure: macroeconomic sustainability, allocative efficiency (better outcomes per unit of public … expenditure) and technical efficiency (less resource inputs per unit of public output). Against this backdrop, the paper discusses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444371
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Regulation in Services : OECD Patterns and Economic Implications
Nicoletti, Giuseppe - 2001
regulation can encourage competition, efficiency and investment in those segments of the service industries where non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446449
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Health Care Reform Controlling Spending and Increasing Efficiency
Oxley, Howard - 1994
microeconomic reforms. Significant improvements in micro-efficiency and effectiveness can be obtained by improving incentives facing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446889
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Assessing the Efficiency of Welfare Spending in Slovenia with Data Envelopment Analysis
Hribernik, Matevz; Kierzenkowski, Rafal - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
This paper derives estimates of the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia and the other OECD countries from data … among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a given level of spending outcomes fall short by around 3.5% in health care … 18th to 27th in the OECD for input efficiency as the same outcomes could be reached by scaling back costs by around half …
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Efficiency and Contestability in the Colombian Banking System
Daude, Christian; Pascal, Julien - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2015
-deposit spread suggests that the levels of contestability and efficiency are low. A more in-depth analysis using stochastic frontier … and data envelopment analyses confirm that the efficiency of the Colombian commercial banking system is low compared to … potential determinants of efficiency and contestability for a sample of the 24 countries over the period 2004 – 2013. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276947
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Performance Indicators for Public Spending Efficiency in Primary and Secondary Education
Sutherland, Douglas; Price, Robert W.R.; Joumard, Isabelle - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2007
This paper assesses the potential to raise public spending efficiency in the primary and secondary education sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045647
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Mortgage finance across OECD countries
van Hoenselaar, Frank - 2021
The landscapes of housing loan markets vary considerably across OECD countries, reflecting differences in preferences and policy settings. This paper first draws a topography of disparities in mortgage structure, documenting considerable variation across OECD countries in key features such as in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801153
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Migration, housing and regional disparities: A gravity model of inter-regional migration with an application to selected OECD countries
Cavalleri, Maria Chiara - 2021
Inter-regional migration – the movements of the population from one region to another within the same country – can be an important mechanism of spatial economic adjustment, affecting regional demographic and growth patterns. This paper examines the economic and housing-related factors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801178
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Labour market transitions across OECD countries: Stylised facts
Causa, Orsetta - 2021
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of patterns and trends of worker transitions across European countries and the United States, with an emphasis on differences across socio-economic groups. Understanding labour market transitions is important to gauge the scope of labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012801196
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The tortoise and the hare: The race between vaccine rollout and new COVID variants
Turner, David - 2021
New variants of the virus are spreading which, together with seasonal effects, are estimated to be able to raise effective reproduction numbers by up to 90%. Meanwhile, many countries are rolling out vaccination programmes, but at varying speeds. Hence the race is on to beat the variants with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012630293