This paper aims at contributing to the decision-making regarding the allocation of public resources under the Federal Legislative Power. The focus of the paper was to construct criteria that could help elect the municipal legislative council in each micro-region that has the greatest power of...

This paper discusses a new approach to controlling for the environment when estimating efficiency. In response to the literature on the international comparison of bank efficiency, we draw the attention to a local dimension of comparison. By introducing geographical weights and estimating local...