Resource efficiency and economic considerations are a major topic in higher education systems. Universities are urged … approaches regarding university efficiency. Though based in Germany and connected to the BMBF research project HELENA at the …

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 …