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 …

This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …

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 …

further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper … uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population … in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input …

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 …

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 …

. While previous work has attempted to study what determines the efficiency, the focus was put on various factors that were … of 31 provinces between 2000 and 2017, we estimated a Tobit model, with the efficiency of public spending calculated by … data envelopment analysis (DEA). The efficiency of public spending is partially determined by the structure of the spending …

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

The issue of quality and its relationship with efficiency and performance is a crucial operational issue in many fields …