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 …

satisfaction is ambiguous, little evidence has been provided regarding the role that the efficiency of local governments may play … towards enhancing local governments’ efficiency in three regions of rural Russia (Adyghea, Penza and Perm) at the onset of a … public services. Rather, it appears that enhancing local managerial efficiency in delivering public services is a long …

The view that European institutions do not operate with maximum efficiency, that they are not yet able to cope with all … emerged in recent years. In this paper we try to clarify the concept of institutional efficiency, and try to follow from a …

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 …

dataset of 10 ASEAN countries from 1980 to 2017, this study examines the productivity and efficiency of the ASEAN economies … productivity index to provide estimates of gross technical efficiency, technical progress and returns to scale change, while taking … into account of transient and persistent efficiency. The results show that there is room for efficiency gains, as the ASEAN …

enterprises activity in the field of research and development and their efficiency at the core business level. This analysis was … efficiency and without it - using the Spearman's rank correlation coefficient. The sample was accounted for 252 companies from …: identification and characterization of factors determining efficiency of companies research and development activities, as well as …

This paper offers a methodology to assess the internal productive efficiency of National Regulatory Authorities (NRAs …) based on the performances of regulated markets, measured in terms of the degree of market efficiency (either static or … efficiency in carrying out their regulatory activities. We find the NRAs in 2004 accession countries are more efficient in …