corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a 'bribe tax' and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency …, which is often believed to be closely linked with corruption: the 'time tax' imposed on firms by red tape. When testing … their effects in the full sample, only the bribe tax appears to have a negative effect on firm-level productivity, while the …

. Die Effizienz zahlreicher Agrarunternehmen Sachsen-Anhalts wurde darüber hinaus durch den verstärkten Bodenkauf negativ …The main focus of this Discussion Paper the analysis of the efficiency of agricultural enterprises in Sachsen … efficiency measurement the technical, pure technical and scale efficiency of agricultural enterprises on verge of the eastern …

This paper considers the effect of corruption on the effciency of capital investment. Using firm-level level data from … decreases investment efficiency, as measured using both absolute and relative metrics of investment returns. The negative effect …

The paper investigates how tax rates, corruption and institutional aspects of the labour market influence the size of … corruption, as well as the establishment of a new concept and variable, the subjective tax rate. Alternative regression …

corruption on the variation of relative tax revenues (their ratio to GDP) in the OECD countries in 2000-2004. The relationship … between the interaction of tax rates with corruption and the relative tax revenues shows an inverse U-shape line, as if it … the interaction between the tax rates and the level of corruption, and the third one is a negative effect of the …

Analysis (DEA). In particular, it estimates the efficiency of 78 SUCs based on available input data (i.e., expenditure data … productivity change in these institutions by applying the Malmquist approach on a four-year panel data set of 78 SUCs. The DEA … results indicate that majority of the SUCs have efficiency score less than 1 and thus, they are considered inefficient. In …

-Luenberger productivity index. The index credits the expansion of goods (value added) and the contraction of bads (emissions), at given inputs … decomposed into measures of efficiency change (?catching up?) and technical change (innovation). We analyse the variation of the … productivity to identify crucial dimensions, which may then be analysed on a more disaggregated basis. …

analyses of public capital productivity have been limited to a small sample of countries for which official capital stock …

addressed the productivity and efficiency of the core area of the armed forces, operational units, using Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA). Introducing a model for the production process of an operational unit, productivity and efficiency are …