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 paper investigates the performance and efficiency of the public sector in 74 countries worldwide for the years … envelopment analysis) approach for the calculation of efficiency scores. Government expenditure is used as input for the … evaluation of efficiency. In the last step the efficiency scores are regressed upon variables that describe the environment of …

association started with a voluntary benchmarking aimed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the sector. Secondly … efficiency of these two evolutions. In particular, we adapt Free Disposal Hull (FDH) to estimate robust and conditional non …-oriented efficiency estimates. Parametric COLS (Fourier) tests show the robustness of the model with respect to the specification and its …

subnational governments by transferring additional tasks. This paper analyzes the efficiency of public spending on an intermediate … government level for a sample of 96 départements in metropolitan France in 2008. Spending efficiency is measured using Data … between 10 and 22 percent, depending on model specification. To explain efficiency, a bootstrapped truncated regression …

suffered from significant inefficiencies. In this work, we estimate the intermediation-type efficiency of individual banks, and …