This chapter conducts a review of the literature dealing with overall public sector performance and efficiency, it … defines a methodology to assess public sector efficiency and it creates a novel and large cross-sectional panel dataset of … government indicators and public sector efficiency scores. The focus is on a balanced sample covering all 36 OECD countries over …

This paper empirically links the efficiency and performance assessment of the general government, proxied by efficiency … scores, to the trust in government. Government spending efficiency scores are first computed via data envelopment analysis … (DEA). Then, relying on panel data and instrumental variable approaches, we estimate the effect of public sector efficiency …

A decline in poverty generally masks regional disparities that are due to varying efficiency among states. Using a … generalized true random-effects model, we distinguish between persistent and transient inefficiencies on subnational efficiency to … reduce poverty and its determinants in Bolivia. Our findings reveal that states differ in terms of efficiency, with some …

This paper examines the evolution of Hong Kong banks' technical efficiency during the period 2000–2006 through the … prism of the intermediation and production approaches. Using a modified slacks-based model and purging efficiency scores of … random errors, we analyse trends in bank efficiency and identify ‘environmental’ factors that affect the scores. Analysis …

This paper examines the influence of environmental factors on technical, cost, scale and revenue efficiency of German … differentiates between declining and growing regions. Regional and demographic factors explain part of the variation in efficiency … levels. Population density and branch penetration positively affect efficiency in growing regions. A negative impact of …

This study considers the efficiency of banking in Australia during the post-deregulation period 1988-2001. Since 1986 … their superior scale efficiency. However, this superior efficiency did not necessarily result in superior profits. Our … banks have used size as a barrier to entry to the new entrants in the post-deregulation period. Furthermore, bank efficiency …

. The profit efficiency of banks has been improved after year 2000 while the cost efficiency of them decayed during the same … deposits-to-assets ratio tend to have low volatility of the cost efficiency. The high deposits-to-assets ratio also helps … reduce the volatility of the profit efficiency. Consequently, according to the empirical results, the privatization of the …

This study investigates the technical and profit efficiency of commercial banks in Pakistan. Data Envelopment Analysis … is used as a preferred methodology to accurately determine profit and technical efficiency. The constant return to scale … model is employed and Excel Solver is used to give scores which highlights the efficiency differences across three ownership …

The objective of this paper is to discuss the use of modern frontier efficiency analysis to analyze firm performance in … research to incorporate the frontier efficiency approach. The chapter also serves as a guide for those who are already … conducting frontier efficiency analysis but are seeking guidance in using the methodology or defining inputs and outputs. We …

The paper examines how the type of ownership affects the profit efficiency of Russian banks. Using bank-quarter data … intermediary approach to assess profit efficiency. Our key findings show that foreign-owned banks are the most efficient, followed … by state-owned banks and private domestic banks. We also find that the profit efficiency of foreign-owned banks was …