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 …

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 …

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 …

Crisis (GFC) and whether operational efficiency is related to shareholder value creation in informationally efficient stock … markets. The impact of GFC on bank efficiency and shareholder value creation is assessed for 29 large banks in the USA, UK … bank efficiency and shareholder value during 2008-09. A significant relationship between profit efficiency and shareholder …

In this paper, we estimate the efficiency of Metropolitan, Municipal, and District Assemblies (MMDAs) in Ghana, and … investigate the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of local public goods and services delivery by MMDAs. Using … MMDAs' internally generated funds as a share of their total revenue has a positive influence on the efficiency of MMDAs …

This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …