Administrative patent revocation in the U.S. is poised to enter a new period of efficiency, though ironically it will … be an efficiency that the America Invents Act originally put in place. The Court’s recent approval of the … choice — either fully accepting a PTAB petition or fully denying it — is already being criticized for sacrificing efficiency …

onerous and even outrageous requirements on tribal governments that violate well-recognized principles of efficiency …

The need to balance austerity with growth policies has put government efficiency high on the economic policy agenda in … Europe. Administrative reforms which boost the efficiency of the administration can alleviate the trade-off between … consolidation and public service provision. Against such backdrop, this study explores the determinants of efficiency enhancing …

This paper fulfills a gap in the existing literature by analyzing the impact of government efficiency and corruption on … these groups. Obtained findings provide strong evidence that government efficiency has a significant effect on financial …

This paper investigated the structure of the market, efficiency and performance (profitability) of the general … Herfindahl Hirschman Index and the concentration ratio to measure the SCP in addition to computing efficiency as a measure for …

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 …

empirically that both mechanisms perform poorly with regard to two key desiderata such as efficiency and equality, even in large …

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 …