An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German universities in the process of transforming public …

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 …

This study analyzes the efficiency of the road provision of the local governments of eastern German counties using data … envelopment analysis. The provision of roads is a costly public service, which makes an efficiency analysis in this field an … interesting subject. I enhance the previous literature by first, examining the differences in the efficiency of eastern German …