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 …

envelopment analysis (DEA) and the Malmquist index, this study measures the efficiency of public schools in Colombia and their …

absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel … efficiency evaluation changes when both aspects are taken into account. It is the first time that the idea of persistent …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

In this study we examine the potential determinants of technical efficiency for the Tunisian commercial banking sector … over the period of 1995-2017. First, we estimate banking technical efficiency with a radial and non-radial bootstrap data … determinants on technical efficiency. Finally, based on all possible regressions, we gauge the overall effect of each determinant …

both production stages likely leads to biased inferences about public productive (in)efficiency and its determinants. Hence …, this paper uses a specially tailored, fully non-parametric efficiency model allowing for both outlying observations and … efficiency. -- Public good provision ; conditional efficiency ; nonparametric estimation ; libraries ; local govenment …

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school … efficiency. We discuss the policy implications of our results. …

We examine the educational production function and efficiency of public school districts in Illinois. Using … related) differs substantially from our efficiency scores, and standard parametric approaches drastically underestimate school … efficiency. We discuss the policy implications of our results …

pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine … how electoral cycles influence local government efficiency by using OLS fixed effects, event study, and instrumental … variable estimations in a large balanced panel of around 2,000 municipalities in the German state of Bavaria. Cost efficiency …