This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the relative efficiency of Belgian general government in the field of health care, education and public order and safety. In order to do so, this paper aggregates a large number of outcome indicators. Several drawbacks indicate...

This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the relative efficiency of Belgian general government in the field of health care, education and public order and safety. In order to do so, this paper aggregates a large number of outcome indicators. Several drawbacks indicate...

Die Bundesrepublik steht vor der historischen Aufgabe, inmitten sich überlagernder Krisen und nach langem Modernisierungsstau das zu tun, was nötig ist, um auch in den kommenden Jahren Produktivität, Daseinsvorsorge und Sicherheit zu gewährleisten. Dies erfordert auch einen zielgerichteten...

This paper uses the Free Disposal Hull framework in order to assess the relative efficiency of Belgian general government in the field of health care, education and public order and safety. In order to do so, this paper aggregates a large number of outcome indicators. Several drawbacks indicate...

Die Bundesrepublik steht vor der historischen Aufgabe, inmitten sich überlagernder Krisen und nach langem Modernisierungsstau das zu tun, was nötig ist, um auch in den kommenden Jahren Produktivität, Daseinsvorsorge und Sicherheit zu gewährleisten. Dies erfordert auch einen zielgerichteten...

Existing methods for data interpolation or backdating are either univariate or based on a very limited number of series, due to data and computing constraints that were binding until the recent past. Nowadays large datasets are readily available, and models with hundreds of parameters are fastly...

In this paper we study the zero frequency spectral properties of fractionally cointegrated long memory processes and introduce a new frequency domain principal components estimator of the cointegration space and the factor loading matrix for the long memory factors. We find that for fractionally...

Existing methods for data interpolation or backdating are either univariate or based on a very limited number of series, due to data and computing constraints that were binding until the recent past. Nowadays large datasets are readily available, and models with hundreds of parameters are fastly...