association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

both production stages likely leads to biased inferences about public productive (in)efficiency and its determinants. Hence …, this paper uses a specially tailored, fully non-parametric efficiency model allowing for both outlying observations and … efficiency. -- Public good provision ; conditional efficiency ; nonparametric estimation ; libraries ; local govenment …