A new production-frontier specification is proposed when dealing with decision-making units whose efficiencies are correlated with the performances of the neighbors (spatial dependence), providing a bias reduction with respect to standard data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods. For the...

The need to be compliant with the fiscal frameworks of the European Union and Spain has generated asymmetric fiscal behavior across the Spanish government tiers regarding the distribution of the needed fiscal efforts to pursue public finance sustainability and macroeconomic stability in the...