The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying … Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). A Total Public Sector Performance (TPSP) indicator for eight local government activities … economy) is calculated to measure technical efficiency. Efficiency scores are then related to the fiscal equalization scheme …

We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this … only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the …

We discuss a model for analyzing and measuring workers' health and psychosocial work-environment on firm productivity …. Productivity is measured through the Malmquist productivity index approach using Data Envelopment Analysis. A novel component of … two variables are modeled as latent or unobserved variables using Item Response Theory. Changes over time in productivity …

(administration, education, health, and transportation) are used to measure technical and scale efficiency and to derive DEA scores … Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to the years 2000 to 2004. Aggregate output performance indicators for four local government activities …

This paper uses a stochastic cost frontier model to investigate the efficiency of Britain’s private railways during the … that private ownership per se is not sufficient to promote efficiency in the railway industry; it should be supported by …

than privatization itself. We ask what changes around privatization had the greatest impact on efficiency for UK … electricity generators. We analyse the effects of privatization and other changes in incentives on plant efficiency using a newly …The literature shows that for most UK industries privatization might be necessary but is not sufficient to produce …

. Martin Feldstein's pro-privatization rhetoric relative to Social Security is first analyzed. A subsequent comparison his … rhetoric to that of George W. Bush concludes that both the political and the economic rhetoric of Social Security privatization …