The purpose of this paper is to analyze the efficiency of the 26 Swiss cantons over the period 2000 to 2004 applying … economy) is calculated to measure technical efficiency. Efficiency scores are then related to the fiscal equalization scheme … competition. -- DEA ; efficiency measurement ; federalism ; fiscal equalization ; public finance ; Switzerland ; Tiebout …

This chapter conducts a review of the literature dealing with overall public sector performance and efficiency, it … defines a methodology to assess public sector efficiency and it creates a novel and large cross-sectional panel dataset of … government indicators and public sector efficiency scores. The focus is on a balanced sample covering all 36 OECD countries over …

This paper fulfills a gap in the existing literature by analyzing the impact of government efficiency and corruption on … these groups. Obtained findings provide strong evidence that government efficiency has a significant effect on financial …

We link governments’ spending efficiency scores, to sovereign debt assessments made by financial markets´, more … specifically by three rating agencies (Standard & Poors, Moody´s and Fitch). Public efficiency scores are computed via data … efficiency scores. Covering 34 OECD countries over the period 2007-2018, we find that increased public spending efficiency is …

the government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology … relation between size and efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores … efficiency, the results change drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size …