Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency … is regressed on explanatory variables. No evidence is found for average productivity responding to deregulation over the …

potential gains-in terms of freeing up resources and delivering better health outcomes-from improving health spending efficiency …? How has efficiency evolved over the past decade? What can policymakers do to boost it? This paper estimates health … spending efficiency across countries using bias-corrected data envelopment analysis and finds sizable differences in efficiency …

This paper investigates the efficiency of domestic and foreign banks in the Central American region during 2002 … acquired by global banks in a wave of acquisitions during 2005-07 can keep up with the local institutions. The efficiency of …-specific characteristics are found to have a considerable influence on bank efficiency …

developing countries across the world. We analyze the impact of this shift into services on countries' efficiency in collecting … the value-added tax (VAT). The analysis is based on two alternative measures of VAT efficiency: (1) the VAT C-efficiency … 2004-2016. We find that a higher share of services in aggregate value-added reduces the VAT efficiency, and that this …

This paper studies the effect of public sector efficiency on firm productivity using data from more than 400,000 firms … significantly reduces the labor productivity of private sector firms. The results suggest that raising public sector efficiency … across Italy's provinces. Exploiting the large heterogeneity in the efficiency of the public sector across Italian provinces …

Total factor productivity (TFP) growth began slowing in the United States in the mid-2000s, before the Great Recession … explanation offered in this paper is that the slowdown in U.S. TFP growth reflects a loss of efficiency or market dynamism over … the last two decades. Indeed, there are large differences in production efficiency across U.S. states, with the states …

(SSA). Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is applied to determine the extent to which these institutions affect the financial …

to analyze the variation in labor productivity growth across China''s provinces. This approach imposes less structure on … the data than the standard growth accounting framework and allows for a breakdown of labor productivity into capital … deepening, efficiency gains, and technological progress. Like other studies before us, we do not find strong evidence of …

by means of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and we employ a meta-frontier approach to calculate efficiency scores in a … African (MENA) countries in the period 1994 -2008. We evaluate bank efficiency in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Lebanon and Tunisia … bank specific variables on bank efficiency. Overall, the analysis shows that, despite similarities in the process of …