El uso de indicadores de gestión en el ámbito público se ha extendido en las últimas décadas con el objetivo de valorar la actuación de las agencias públicas y contribuir a mejorar su funcionamiento y la eficiencia con que éstas operan. El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar las...

The aim of this paper is to study how much sensitive efficiency scores are when different approaches proposed in the literature are used to include exogenous factors in efficiency analysis. Specifically, we will concentrate on two crucial issues. One the one hand, although we have an extensive...

Junto a los desarrollos teóricos que tratan de comprender las causas de la corrupción, por qué ésta tiende a presentar un alto grado de persistencia, o cuáles son los efectos sociales, políticos o macroeconómicos de la corrupción, en la última década ha aparecido una gran cantidad de...

It is well known in the educational literature that public and private-voucher schools show different production technologies and present differences in the productivity of their educational inputs due to management issues. On the one hand the students attending public schools differ in their...

Este trabajo analiza los efectos que ha tenido la aplicación del índice de evolución de los ingresos tributarios del Estado (ITE) en la determinación de las cuantías percibidas por los municipios en concepto de transferencias procedentes de la Participación en los Ingresos del Estado...

The present paper analyzes one of the advantages that a country can derive from people with higher educational levels, i.e. higher tax revenues resulting from the higher earnings from higher school attainment.More specifically, we test whether the marginal revenue obtained by the public sector...

This paper is aimed at studying robustness in the so-called clientele effect. After having developed the basic characteristics of the global analysis, two different elements which have effects on tax policy are analysed. On one hand, we assume that business saving produces a gain, but in this...

Recently published results from the PISA 2006 Report show the existence of significant differences in performance scores among students from different Spanish regions participating in this evaluation. The aim of this paper is to use the information provided by this dataset in order to identify...