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Governing scarcity: water markets, equity and efficiency in pre-1950s eastern Spain
(Igitur Publishing, 2011-08)
It is usually taken for granted that the existence of water markets
allows economic efficiency gains to be achieved at the expense of equity losses.
This paper addresses the issue by analysing the functioning of the ...
Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities
(Springer US, 2013)
Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the efficiency of local governments in different countries. An accurate definition of their output bundles—i.e., the services and facilities they provide to their ...
On the dynamics of eco-efficiency performance in the European Union
(Elsevier, 2016-02)
This paper evaluates the evolution of environmental performance in the context of the European Union (EU), over the period 1993–2010. The context is particularly relevant, due to the traditionally high concerns of the EU ...
A multilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
(Elsevier, 2013)
We propose a methodology for evaluating educational performance, from a multilevel perspective. We use partial frontier approaches to mitigate the influence of outliers and the curse of dimensionality. Our estimation ...
Value added, educational accountability approaches and their effects on schools' rankings: Evidence from Chile
(Elsevier, 2016-09)
Value added models have been proposed to analyze different aspects related to school effectiveness on the basis of student growth. There is consensus in the literature about the need to control for socioeconomic status and ...
Sensitivity analysis of efficiency and Malmquist productivity indices: An application to Spanish savings banks
(Elsevier, 2008)
Hypothesis testing and statistical precision in the context of non-parametric efficiency and productivity measurement have been investigated since the early 1990s. Recent contributions focus on this matter through the use ...
Energy efficiency in the European Union: What can be learned from the joint application of directional distance functions and slacks-based measures?
(Elsevier, 2014-11-01)
Over the last few years concerns have increased about the energy mix in many countries. These concerns have been of greater magnitude for countries with a common energy regulation such as European Union (EU) member states. ...
On the informativeness of persistence for evaluating mutual fund performance using partial frontiers
(Elsevier, 2014)
The last few years have witnessed a rapid evolution in the literature evaluating mutual fund performance using frontier techniques. The instruments applied, mostly DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) and, to a lesser extent, ...