We measure technical efficiency in R&D of Italian regions with the aim of understanding whether the variation in transport infrastructure endowment across regions might be the cause of efficiency disparities. We use a semi-parametric method where in the first step we estimate bootstrapped...

A large literature underlines the fact that city sizes are heterogeneous and urban sprawl is not optimal (i.e. cities are too large). Surprisingly, we do not have a clear understanding of these two facts in urban search economics (see Zenou (2009)). Indeed, this literature systematically...

Brazil has constitutionally adopted a Unified Health System (SUS) since 1988. SUS is designed so that central government, states and municipalities together offer public, free for all full health coverage. The complexity and territorial arrangement of SUS have been developed in such a way that...

This paper evaluates the efficiency of the telecommunications sector in Latin America. The great dynamism acquired by this sector has been due to external factors of change such as privatization processes that took place mainly during the nineties, technological changes, market liberalization...

Limit core allocations are the ones that remain in the core of a replicated economy.An equivalent notion for economies with public goods is Schweizer s concept of club e ciency under a variable number of economic agents.We extend this notion to economies with goods that have a semi-public...

Debreu s coefficient of resource utilization is freed from individual data requirements.The procedure is shown to be equivalent to the imposition of Leontief preferences.The rate of growth of the modified Debreu coefficient and the Solow residual are shown to add up to TFP growth.This...

Industry productivity is obtained by aggregation of firm productivities and inclusion of the appropriate allocative efficiency terms, one for each firm.This paper identifies the latter correction terms.