efficiency of universities in a fundamental way. Choosing Italy and Germany as two important illustrative examples we can take … recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for …

We measure technical efficiency in R&D of Italian regions with the aim of understanding whether the variation in … transport infrastructure endowment across regions might be the cause of efficiency disparities. We use a semi-parametric method … where in the first step we estimate bootstrapped efficiency scores through DEA. In the second step, efficiency scores are …