This paper investigates the efficiency of the public sector in a sense of public performance and expenditures. For 23 …, security and infrastructure. We use several efficiency techniques (FDH, order-m) and investigate input- and output …-oriented efficiency of the public sector. We find that countries with small public sectors tend to be more efficient no matter which …

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 …

. First, we estimate efficiency scores by the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) approach. Second, a Fractional Probit model is …Lately, questionings have emerged on how public resources are managed. This work calculates the technical efficiency of … municipalities in Chile, with special emphasis on the political factors that drive efficiency in the management of local resources …

We assess the relative efficiency of local municipalities using Data Envelopment Analysis and parametric analysis. As …. In a second stage efficiency scores are explained by means of a Tobit analysis with a set of relevant explanatory socio …