Economic efficiency – understood in terms of jurisdictions providing a maximum amount of output for a given level of inputs – is one potential means to evaluate public policies. Various approaches, however, co-exist to measure the (technical) efficiency of organizations. Given that these...

Brazil has constitutionally adopted a Unified Health System (SUS) since 1988. SUS is designed so that central government, states and municipalities together offer public, free for all full health coverage. The complexity and territorial arrangement of SUS have been developed in such a way that...

Annette Illy entwickelt Bewertungsmaßstäbe zur Messung von Dezentralisierung auf kommunaler Ebene und untersucht mit modernen ökonometrischen Methoden den Einfluss von Gemeindetypen und Gemeindegröße auf die kommunale Effizienz und die Zufriedenheit der Bürger. Dies ist vor allem vor dem...

The objective of this paper is to provide new information on the performance of efficiency estimation methods by applying a wide range of econometric and mathematical programming techniques to a sample of U.S. life insurers. Average efficiencies differ significantly across methods. The...