This paper applies nonparametric estimators to examine the effect of regional quality of government on the environmental performance in the NUTS 1 regions in France, Germany, and the UK. A novel measure on governance is used, gauging the partiality, corruption and effectiveness of government...

This paper examines the effect of financial development on countries’ production efficiency levels. By applying a probabilistic framework it develops robust (Order-m) time-dependent conditional nonparametric frontier estimators in order to measure 87 countries’ production efficiency levels...