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 …

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 …

This study uses the EU public power generating sector as a case study to investigate the environmental efficiency and … Envelopment Analysis methods, we measure the environmental efficiency and the productivity growth registered in public power … productivity and efficiency over time using state-of-the-art econometric techniques. Our analysis suggests two conclusions: on the …

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 …