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Productive efficiency in processing social security disability claims : a look back at the 1989-95 surge

Lahiri, Kajal; Hu, Jianting - In: Empirical economics : a quarterly journal of the … 60 (2021) 1, pp. 419-457

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Efficiency analysis of social protection expenditure in the Italian Regions

Frenda, Antonio; Sepe, Enrica; Scippacercola, Sergio - In: Socio-economic planning sciences : the international … 73 (2021), pp. 1-9

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Elections and government efficiency

Dorn, Florian - 2021

pending question whether efficiency in the provision of public goods and services is affected by strategic behavior. I examine … how electoral cycles influence local government efficiency by using OLS fixed effects, event study, and instrumental … variable estimations in a large balanced panel of around 2,000 municipalities in the German state of Bavaria. Cost efficiency …

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Political donations, public procurement and government efficiency

Titl, Vitezslav; De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2019

, we employ an advanced non-parametric efficiency model to study the public sector (cost) efficiency implications of such … distortions. Using a unique dataset covering the Czech regions over the 2007-2014 period, we find that the efficiency of public … power ("party donors"). We link this efficiency difference to two underlying mechanisms: i.e. shifts in procurement contract …

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Only a Dictatorship is Efficient or Neutral

Benoit, Jean-Pierre - 2007

Social choice theory understands a voting rule as a mapping from preferences over possible outcomes to a specific choice or choices. However, actual election procedures often do not have this structure. Rather, in a typical election, although the outcome is an assembly comprising several people...

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Efficient Electorates

Nayeem, Omar A - 2014

An economic argument in favor of direct democracy in a social choice setting with pure common values, private noisy information about an unobservable payoff-relevant state of the world, and costless voting is essentially one about information aggregation: if all citizens vote according to their...

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Efficient frontiers and fiscal stability : an ex-ante and ex-post application to the Irish public finances

McQuinn, Kieran; Roche, Maurice J. - 2016

Revenue from taxation has become more volatile after the global financial crisis. In this paper we provide a mean-variance analysis for key taxation components in the Irish fiscal accounts. This approach is a useful complement to the more standard measures of fiscal developments, which typically...

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Does government spending efficiency improve fiscal sustainability?

Afonso, António; Alves, José - 2022

We evaluate the impact of government spending efficiency on fiscal sustainability for a panel of 35 OECD countries … revenues to changes in government spending. Next, we make use of so-called government spending efficiency scores, which … the input efficiency scores obtained, countries' fiscal balance and fiscal sustainability is directly improved by the use …

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Discussion on banking efficiency and determinants in the digital finance environment : evidence in Taiwan

Lin, Szu-Hsien; Lai, Huei-Hwa; Chang, Tzu-Pu; Chen, Yi-Jing - In: International journal of business 27 (2022) 3, pp. 89-118

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Chapter 24 Economics of dental services

Sintonen, Harri; Linnosmaa, Ismo - In: Handbook of health economics : volume 1, part B, (pp. 1251-1296). 2000

dental care, (ii) productivity, technical efficiency and economies of scale in dental care production, and finally (iii …

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