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 …

This paper evaluates the relevance of the taxation for public spending efficiency in a sample of OECD economies in the … measure the change in total factor productivity, the change in efficiency and the change in technology. Second, we explain … these newly computed public efficiency scores with tax structures using a reduced-form panel data regression specification …

economies. We also assess the efficiency of public spending in redistributing income by using a DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis …

emerging markets. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure efficiency measurement issues, we compute efficiency scores and … rankings by applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states …In this paper we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the European Union compared to that in …

We evaluate the effects of structural tax reforms on government spending efficiency in a sample of OECD economies over … the period 2007-2016. After calculating input spending efficiency scores, we assess the relevance for efficiency of … narrative tax changes in a panel setup. We find that: i) input efficiency scores average around 0.6-07; ii) increases in the tax …

markets. After a conceptual discussion of expenditure efficiency measurement, we compute efficiency scores and rankings by … applying a range of measurement techniques. The study finds that expenditure efficiency across new EU member states is rather …In this paper we analyse public sector efficiency in the new member states of the EU compared to that in emerging …

particular to the impact of the quality of education and public institutions. The paper assesses the efficiency of public …