This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go …-m - which addresses some of the drawbacks of the standard efficiency frontier analysis and allows for so-called super … “usual suspects”. Furthermore, standard output rankings are not well correlated with our estimated efficiency rankings, which …

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 …

else equal, suffer relative to the best performing countries. We can refer to this as the countries' (in)efficiency at … with a 10%higher disaster relief efficiency will save one more life and protect four more people at the cost of $8 million in …

This study examines the influence of information constraints on firms' efficiency in using digital technologies …

(e.g., related to an individual's altruism, fairness perceptions, concerns for efficiency, and political views). By …

order to trigger fine payments. Hence, efficiency needs an excessive standard. …

decreasing efficiency, which becomes more severe as the centralized budget increases. We also analyze partial ex-ante commitment … through alternative decision-making institutions: Both majority rule and exogenous tax rules can improve efficiency. …