accountability and transparency. The particular emphasis is on the comparative overview of major state-owned enterprises' missions …

government efficiency developed differently after changes in accounting standards. Operating costs of administration, however …

This paper examines the performance of the JTPA performance system, a widely emulated model for inducing efficiency in … weakly, and sometimes perversely, related to long run impacts and (b) that the efficiency gains or losses from cream skimming …

Europe. Administrative reforms which boost the efficiency of the administration can alleviate the trade-off between …The need to balance austerity with growth policies has put government efficiency high on the economic policy agenda in … consolidation and public service provision. Against such backdrop, this study explores the determinants of efficiency enhancing …

This paper studies the effect of public sector efficiency on firm productivity using data from more than 400,000 firms … across Italy's provinces. Exploiting the large heterogeneity in the efficiency of the public sector across Italian provinces … significantly reduces the labor productivity of private sector firms. The results suggest that raising public sector efficiency …