This article develops and presents a “Composite Indicator of the Creative Economy” (CICE). The CICE is a summary measure of an entity’s (e.g., a region’s) creative capacity or capability in three key dimensions: Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Openness. To develop the CICE we use an...

This article examines whether the efficiency and effectiveness of the government linearly depends on the size of the public spending. We show that countries with a larger government do not systematically achieve better results than countries with a smaller government. Therefore, by the use of a...

In this paper we mimic an engineeriilg approach to the "production" of tax offices. Essentially one dominant physical input (labour) is converted into heterogeneous non-monetary outputs such as theNumber of audited returns with a different degree of complexity. Productive efficiency is evaluated...