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 …

Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to subsequently assess the relationship between efficiency and the growth rate of public expenditure …We examine the relationship between public sector efficiency and government spending, to assess public resource … outcomes across various public sector performance (PSP) indicators. We compute government spending efficiency using Data …

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 …

education. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compare (benchmark) the Nordic countries with a relevant group of rich OECD … countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse … different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students …

, we employ an advanced non-parametric efficiency model to study the public sector (cost) efficiency implications of such … distortions. Using a unique dataset covering the Czech regions over the 2007-2014 period, we find that the efficiency of public … power ("party donors"). We link this efficiency difference to two underlying mechanisms: i.e. shifts in procurement contract …

-2021. To this end, we use non-parametric and parametric techniques: Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and Stochastic Frontier …

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. …

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