This paper proposes an approach to measure efficiency of a set of units operating in an administrative public service, namely real estate cadastral offices, which have not been analysed previously. This study has been made possible thanks to the database provided by the Directorate General of...

. El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar la sensibilidad de los índices de eficiencia estimados para los distintos centros educativos a las diferentes alternativas propuestas en la literatura para incluir los factores exógenos en el análisis. Concretamente, nos centraremos en dos cuestiones...

The United Kingdom has in many respects the archetypal centrally planned, publicly financed health care system in the form of National Health Service (NHS), established in 1948 in a time of great austerity after Second World War. It is largely funded from general taxation, and provides wide...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar cómo incide la corrupción en los niveles de productividad y en su ritmo de crecimiento en una muestra de países de la OCDE. Para ello adoptaremos un enfoque frontera, lo que nos permitirá, por una parte, analizar si esta variable condiciona los niveles...

. Este trabajo evalúa los cambios en las diferencias en los niveles de desigualdad y bienestar entre las Comunidades Autónomas españolas, tomando como referencia un extenso intervalo temporal (1973-2000). Utilizando los microdatos de las EPFs estructurales y la ECPF-2000 longitudinal...

This paper offers an evaluation about the current design of the unconditional transfer system to the municipalities in Spain taking as a reference the precepts of fiscal federalism theory. The analysis carried out is based on the released results of the model during the period from 2004-2009, in...

The use of formulae has become widespread in recent years across most developed countries. In the UK, a conservative estimate is that annually £150 billion of public service expenditure is distributed using formulae, in services such as health care, local government, social security and higher...