Background: In recent years, measuring and evaluating the efficiency of health systems has been explored in the context … in the health sector. The study aims to quantify and compare the efficiency of OECD health systems in 2000, 2008, and … 2016. The contribution to research in the field of efficiency in the healthcare system can be seen in the application of …

This chapter conducts a review of the literature dealing with overall public sector performance and efficiency, it … defines a methodology to assess public sector efficiency and it creates a novel and large cross-sectional panel dataset of … government indicators and public sector efficiency scores. The focus is on a balanced sample covering all 36 OECD countries over …

We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we … empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … spending efficiency scores via data envelopment analysis. Second, relying on panel data and impulse response approaches, we …

This paper is aimed at exploring how X-efficiency or management quality is associated with one of the most vivid forms …