towards production process concluding in the maintaining of public service production and increasing its efficiency related to … expenses reduction on public services efficiency and, based on these, to formulate conclusions on local governance efficiency …

This paper analyzes the relationship between intermunicipal cooperation and efficiency of public service provision. The …. We employ a two-stage DEA (DEA = Data Envelopment Analysis) bootstrap approach to calculate relative efficiency measures … municipalities score lower in terms of technical efficiency than self-providing and contracting municipalities. The scope for …

We measure cost efficiency of 202 Czech municipalities of extended scope in period 2003-2008. The study is the first … application of overall efficiency measurement of the local governments in the new EU member states, and the second in post …-communist countries. We measure government efficiency through established quantitative and qualitative indicators of the provision of …

This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … purpose, we combine newly available data from Italy on public administration efficiency of subnational governments with geo … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …

The efficiency and effectiveness of local governments has become one of the main points of interest in public sector … administration, as decision and policy making gradually move from the central to the local level. This paper introduces an efficiency … analysis is used to obtain efficiency estimates, which are analyzed through a second stage regression against a set of …

significant supervisory and regulatory reforms affecting banks efficiency performance. We offer new insights investigating overall … that persistent efficiency seems to be more important for both specifications, as it accounts for 32\% (for the production …

This paper examines the relationship between financial market regulation, country governance and efficiency of …, we employ a non-parametric approach — Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) — to estimate the banks' cost and profit efficiency … efficiency. The results suggest that commercial banks in East Asia are relatively profit efficient rather than cost efficient …