We propose the use of a three-level random intercept model to measure the degree of environmental policy performance of … policies in three main ways. First, the model results in a ranking of countries which is conditional on the complexity of their … determinants through a latent regression approach. The resulting country ranking can thus be cleaned from the effect of economic …

The practice of ranking public entities is not widespread in Italy. Although assessments of the quality of public … facto assuming the role of key performance indicators. The strategy of each institution is therefore strongly influenced by …

how measures based on µ-scores can complement the existing measures for `performance' (which may depend on the situation …

’s efficiency but also for objective rating, ranking and selecting best banks.  …

discourse and policies designed for specific scientific disciplines. The discourse links researchers increased performance to …

Does the relative position in a hierarchy or a ranking affect individual risk attitudes and performance? This paper … discontinuity design. Our results suggest substantial performance differences as a result of randomly assigned relative positions …