regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying … economy) is calculated to measure technical efficiency. Efficiency scores are then related to the fiscal equalization scheme … competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …

further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper … uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population … in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input …

This study examines the spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers of Chinese provinces using a spatial Durbin … production frontier model that accounts for persistent and transient efficiency using a panel dataset of Chinese provinces from … efficiency of the respective provinces. The estimated results show that spatial productivity and efficiency spillovers are …

literature is mixed with regard to the claimed expenditure reductions and efficiency gains from municipal mergers. We therefore … analyze the global efficiency of the municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt, for the first time in this context, using a double … control for exogenous determinants of municipal efficiency. Our focus thereby is on institutional and fiscal variables …

This paper analyses the impact of vertical grants on local public sector efficiency. First, we develop a theoretical … reduce efficiency if voters do not misinterpret the amount of vertical grants the local bureaucrats receive. If voters suffer … from fiscal illusion, i.e. overestimate the amount of grants, our model yields an ambiguous effect of grants on efficiency …

In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German university system in the process of translating … over the period 2006-2011, we find that Italian universities are significantly better in terms of cost efficiency than …

literature is mixed with regard to the claimed expenditure reductions and efficiency gains from municipal mergers. We therefore … analyze the global efficiency of the municipalities in Saxony-Anhalt, for the first time in this context, using a double … control for exogenous determinants of municipal efficiency. Our focus thereby is on institutional and fiscal variables …

This paper analyses the impact of vertical grants on local public sector efficiency. First, we develop a theoretical … reduce efficiency if voters do not misinterpret the amount of vertical grants the local bureaucrats receive. If voters suffer … from fiscal illusion, i.e. overestimate the amount of grants, our model yields an ambiguous effect of grants on efficiency …

This study examines the effects of the tax structure composition for public sector efficiency in a sample of 41 … indicators and use them as outputs to compute data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency scores under different orientation … different taxes for public efficiency in a panel regression specification. We find that tax effects are significantly different …