expenditure efficiency for the Italian regions, using the non-parametric DEA approach. The computation of efficiency scores allows … to rank the regions and to detect some room for improvement in terms of efficiency gains at the regional level …

regression is fitted to identify which elements suggested in the literature are the most influential on the technical efficiency … levels of expenditure and basic health achievements; (b) that spatial patterns of efficiency are correlated to economic … performance, but also to locally specific relevant differences; (c) and that positive determinants of efficiency are given by …

This paper explores the impact of fiscal decentralization on the efficiency of public service delivery. It uses a … stochastic frontier method to estimate time-varying efficiency coefficients and analyzes the impact of fiscal decentralization on … those efficiency coefficients. The findings indicate that fiscal decentralization can improve the efficiency of public …

The planning activity of the regional administration of Sardinia (Italy) is characterized by a deep change after the …