This paper investigates the causal effect of public administration efficiency on firm-level productivity. To this … purpose, we combine newly available data from Italy on public administration efficiency of subnational governments with geo … administration efficiency and firm productivity because of large and persistent spatial disparities in economic performance and local …

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 …

efficiency scores derived from stochastic frontier analysis. To correct for this heterogeneity in coefficients, I propose a …. This estimation has better goodness of fit, reduced variance of all coefficients, and higher efficiency scores for nearly …

entities. For this, regulators need to assess the scope for efficiency savings at such entities using historical and forecast … data. There is, however, a moral hazard in regulated companies revealing the full scope for efficiency savings because the … regulator can then incorporate them into ever more demanding efficiency savings in future. Relatedly, unduly demanding short …

A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … generalized true random-effects model, we distinguish between persistent and transient inefficiencies on subnational efficiency to … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some …

to suboptimal incentives. When a regulated firm compares the marginal change in its cost norm with its marginal cost of … that the eight-year catch-up period allowed in this regulation gives strong incentives to reduce costs since the firms can … the other hand, this scheme also provides very weak quality incentives since it takes eight years before the extra cost of …