This paper provides new empirical evidence on regional-national disparities in environmental efficiency, based on case … of environmental efficiency and on sector specificity. This confirms the usefulness of this method for studying the … environmental economics realm, in order to investigate structural and efficiency factors at the level of within country …

sector, to improve its operational efficiency. Meanwhile, great concern about a range of environmental problems and global … study first adopts the game cross-efficiency approach to evaluate the environmental efficiency of the generation sectors in … indicate that efficiency gaps do exist among the regions even though overall efficiency has been improved. Despite the negative …

This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …

competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying … Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities …