indirect indicator of privatization efficiency that significantly influences GDP in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan …

The lack of efficiency that characterized the economic policies of developing countries has prompted several economists …

This paper investigates the performance and efficiency of the public sector in 74 countries worldwide for the years … envelopment analysis) approach for the calculation of efficiency scores. Government expenditure is used as input for the … evaluation of efficiency. In the last step the efficiency scores are regressed upon variables that describe the environment of …

This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data …

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 …

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 …

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 …