Regardless of where we live, the management of the public sector impacts on our lives. Hence, we all have an interest, one way or another, in the achievement of efficiency and productivity improvements in the activities of the public sector. For a government agency that provides a public...

The British Columbia halibut fishery provides a natural experiment of the effects of "privatizing the commons". Using firm-level data from the fishery two years before private harvesting rights were introduced, the year they were implemented, and three years afterwards, a stochastic frontier is...

This paper examines the optimality of the provision of economic infrastructure in Australia using a system of Euler equations to represent intertemporal efficiency conditions. Employing Generalised Method of Moments, our estimation results suggest that dealing with individual types of...