transaction costs. Second, the SEP holder maximizes total output, which is often aligned with social welfare maximization by the …

We assess the public spending efficiency of 20 Latin American countries over the period of 2000-2019, computing Data … Envelopment Analysis efficiency scores. For the Public Sector Performance composite indicator, we use the annual data of socio …

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

We evaluate the impact of government spending efficiency on fiscal sustainability for a panel of 35 OECD countries … revenues to changes in government spending. Next, we make use of so-called government spending efficiency scores, which … efficiently indicate how governments can maintain their level of performance whilst using fewer inputs. Our results show that for …

efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014. The novelty of our approach lies in its extended coverage of …. Exploring potential efficiency drivers, we uncover considerable effect heterogeneity between subject clusters, which is … seek external funding are largely identified to be primary efficiency drivers …

A model that only focuses on economics relations, and in which efficiency and equity are defined in terms of resource … game of social interactions, and define comprehensive notions of efficiency and equity. Social interactions provide …

productivity and rent-seeking ability: they face a choice between engaging in (productive) work or vying for a share of the rent (i … inequity). This tradeoff between efficiency and equity is the primary focus of this paper. We investigate how the distribution … of rent-seeking ability and the correlation between labor productivity and rent-seeking ability shape this tradeoff …

-performing workers), other styles impose non-monetary costs (such as those involving social punishment for low performers). We show that …