This paper investigates the efficiency of European universities in achieving Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). We … adopt a dual approach. At a country level, we investigate efficiency of public expenditure on tertiary education, while at a … university level we analyse the efficiency of the resources employed in achieving higher rankings (in terms of SDGs). Data …

in analyses of productive efficiency. The distributions of these estimators remain unknown except in the simple case of …

We analyse overall cost efficiency in Spanish local governments during the crisis period (2008-2015). To this end, we … first consider some of the most popular nonparametric methods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment … most appropriate one for our particular context and dataset (local government cost efficiency in Spain), we carry out an …

countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse … different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students …

Universities and research institutes are seen as important drivers of the regional economy. Their impact on regional …

Due to tight public budget constraints, the efficiency of publicly financed universities in Germany is receiving … efficiency of higher education. Our main finding is that East German universities have performed better in total factor … German universities still appear at the top end of relative efficiency outcomes. …