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 …

We link governments’ spending efficiency scores, to sovereign debt assessments made by financial markets´, more … specifically by three rating agencies (Standard & Poors, Moody´s and Fitch). Public efficiency scores are computed via data … efficiency scores. Covering 34 OECD countries over the period 2007-2018, we find that increased public spending efficiency is …

, this discretion makes the court more efficient. Efficiency comes at a political cost, though. This discretion also gives … investigates whether the ensuing efficiency gain comes at the cost of biasing the court's jurisprudence. The paper exploits a new …

Judicial efficiency matters for economic development. Nevertheless, the determinants of judicial productivity growth …) and efficiency change which is composed of pure efficiency change (catch-up effect) and scale efficiency change (size …. The first stage results show a slight improvement in judicial productivity trend, which is defined mainly by efficiency …

decomposition approach. We empirically explored the extent to which interprovincial differentials in efficiency explain Indonesia … hardly interpretive, contributing to overall inequality. To incorporate efficiency factors, we estimated the production … frontier and efficiency score of each observation point, using the data envelopment analysis of Coelli et al. (1998). We …