We evaluate the effects of structural tax reforms on government spending efficiency in a sample of OECD economies over … the period 2007-2016. After calculating input spending efficiency scores, we assess the relevance for efficiency of … narrative tax changes in a panel setup. We find that: i) input efficiency scores average around 0.6-07; ii) increases in the tax …

further expansion of government spending as a percentage of GDP, public spending efficiency will need to be raised. This paper … uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) to assess the efficiency of welfare spending (normalized by the working-age population … in efficiency measures across OECD countries and provide possible quantified improvements for both output and input …

This paper evaluates the relevance of the taxation for public spending efficiency in a sample of OECD economies in the … measure the change in total factor productivity, the change in efficiency and the change in technology. Second, we explain … these newly computed public efficiency scores with tax structures using a reduced-form panel data regression specification …

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 study examines the effects of the tax structure composition for public sector efficiency in a sample of 41 … indicators and use them as outputs to compute data envelopment analysis (DEA) efficiency scores under different orientation … different taxes for public efficiency in a panel regression specification. We find that tax effects are significantly different …

We assess notably how do extreme events affect the public sector efficiency of decentralized governance. Hence, we … empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … spending efficiency scores via data envelopment analysis. Second, relying on panel data and impulse response approaches, we …

We evaluate the effects of structural tax reforms on government spending efficiency in a sample of OECD economies over … the period 2007-2016. After calculating input spending efficiency scores, we assess the relevance for efficiency of … narrative tax changes in a panel setup. We find that: i) input efficiency scores average around 0.6-07; ii) increases in the tax …

We investigate the effect on municipality spending efficiency of a local property tax reform, which reduced in 2008 the … upper limit of the property tax. We compute municipality efficiency scores via data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) from 2005 to … 2011, and then we rely in a panel data set to estimate how the tax reform affected the efficiency scores. Results of the …

We link governments’ spending efficiency scores, to sovereign debt assessments made by financial markets´, more … specifically by three rating agencies (Standard & Poors, Moody´s and Fitch). Public efficiency scores are computed via data … efficiency scores. Covering 34 OECD countries over the period 2007-2018, we find that increased public spending efficiency is …