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Government Spending Efficiency, Measurement and Applications : A Cross-country Efficiency Dataset
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2020
This chapter conducts a review of the literature dealing with overall public sector performance and efficiency, it … defines a methodology to assess public sector efficiency and it creates a novel and large cross-sectional panel dataset of … government indicators and public sector efficiency scores. The focus is on a balanced sample covering all 36 OECD countries over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014090629
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Public Services Efficiency Provision in Italian Regions : A Non-Parametric Analysis
Afonso, António; Scaglioni, Carla - 2005
expenditure efficiency for the Italian regions, using the non-parametric DEA approach. The computation of efficiency scores allows … to rank the regions and to detect some room for improvement in terms of efficiency gains at the regional level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066705
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Public and private inputs in aggregate production and growth : a cross-country efficiency approach
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - In: Applied economics 45 (2013) 31/33, pp. 4487-4502
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010225075
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Public and private inputs in aggregate production and growth : a crosscountry efficiency approach
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - In: The quality of public finances and economic growth : …, (pp. 223-243). 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859726
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Pay and unemployment determinants of migration flows in the European Union
Afonso, António; Alves, José; Beck, Krzysztof - 2022
We analyze the migration drivers within the European Union countries. For a set of 23 EU countries over the 1995-2019 period, we use Bayesian Model Averaging and quantile regression to assess notably the relevance of unemployment and earnings. We find that the existence of a common border...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463673
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Determinants of stock market correlations : accounting for model uncertainty and reverse causality in a large panel setting
Afonso, António; Beck, Krzysztof; Jackson, Karen - 2022
We examine 22 determinants of stock market correlations in a panel setting with 651 country pairs of developed economies over the 2001-2018 period, while accounting for model uncertainty and reverse causality. On the one hand, we find, that a number of determinants, well established in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013380503
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Fiscal policy, housing and stock prices
Afonso, António; Sousa, Ricardo M. - 2009
This paper investigates the link between fiscal policy shocks and movements in asset markets using a Fully Simultaneous System approach in a Bayesian framework. Building on the works of Blanchard and Perotti (2002), Leeper and Zha (2003), and Sims and Zha (1999, 2006), the empirical evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826474
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The macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy
Afonso, António; Sousa, Ricardo M. - 2009
We investigate the macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy using a Bayesian Structural Vector Autoregression approach. We build on a recursive identification scheme, but we: (i) include the feedback from government debt (ii); look at the impact on the composition of output; (iii) assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003826480
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The macroeconomic effects of fiscal policy
Afonso, António; Sousa, Ricardo M. - In: Applied economics 44 (2012) 34/36, pp. 4439-4454
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009713411
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Assessing health efficiency across countries with a two-step and bootstrap analysis
Afonso, António; St. Aubyn, Miguel - In: Applied economics letters 18 (2011) 13/15, pp. 1427-1430
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009347991