An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

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 …

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. …

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 …

(DEA). Then, relying on panel data and instrumental variable approaches, we estimate the effect of public sector efficiency …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 …

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 …

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

electricity is low and net-availability and transport capacity high. Accounting for periods of gas specific pricing is relevant … prevalent in recent years, i.e., we find no evidence of underinvestment in capacity after deregulation. …