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A multilevel decomposition of school performance using robust nonparametric frontier techniques
Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili 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 ... -
An international comparison of educational systems: a temporal analysis in presence of bad outputs
Giménez, Víctor; Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer Verlag (2017-02)This study uses the global non-radial Malmquist index to measure performance change in the educational systems of 29 countries/economies participating in PISA 2003 and 2012 for students at age 15 in the disciplines of ... -
Comparing the Performance of National Educational Systems: Inequality Versus Achievement?
Giménez, Víctor; Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer Netherlands (2018)We measure performance change for the educational systems of 28 countries which participated in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study in years 2007 and 2011 for eighth grade basic education students. ... -
Cost and revenue efficiency in Spanish banking: What distributions show
Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Illueca, Manuel Asociación Española de Contabilidad y Administración de Empresas, AECA (2016)The literature analysing the efficiency of financial institutions has evolved rapidly over the last 20 years. Most research has focused on the input side, analysing either cost, input technical efficiency or input allocative ... -
Costs, revenues and performance in Spanish banking:a comparative analysis of pre- and early crisis years
Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Garcia-Alcober, Maria P.; Illueca, Manuel Taylor and Francis Group (2016-07-14)The literature analysing the efficiency of financial institutions has evolved rapidly over the last 20 years. Most research has focused on the input side, analysing either cost, input technical efficiency or input allocative ... -
Decentralization and efficiency of local government
Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Springer-Verlag (2010)This study analyzes the links between efficiency and the decentralization of power in Spanish local governments for the years 1995 and 2000. To this end, we carried out a two-stage activity analysis in which the performance ... -
Devolution dynamics of Spanish local government
Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Pion (2010)Over the last few years, there has been a devolutionary tendency in many devel- oped and developing countries. In this article we propose a methodology to decompose whether the benefits in terms of efficiency derived from ... -
Disentangling the European airlines efficiency puzzle: A network data envelopment analysis approach
Duygun, Meryem; Prior, Diego; Shaban, Mohamed; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2016)In recent years the European airline industry has undergone critical restructuring. It has evolved from a highly regulated market predominantly operated by national airlines to a dynamic, liberalized industry where airline ... -
Evaluation and determinants of preschool effectiveness in Chile
Giménez, Víctor; Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2022-07-01)Early intervention in quality education is a way to equalize opportunities, a premise assumed by several countries that has increased interest in preschool education, which is now a relevant area of public policy. However, ... -
Evaluation of efficiency in Colombian hospitals: An analysis for the post-reform period
Giménez, Víctor; Prieto, William; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Elsevier (2018)In this study we analyze the performance of 602 level 1 Colombian hospitals for the period 2009–2013. The analysis is carried out from both static and temporal perspectives in order to evaluate the evolution of total factor ... -
On the determinants of local government debt: Does one size fit all?
Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor & Francis (2016)This paper analyzes the factors that directly influence levels of debt in Spanish local governments. Specifically, the main objective is to find out the extent to which indebtedness is originated by controllable factors ... -
Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities
Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili 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 ... -
Output complexity, environmental conditions, and the efficiency of municipalities: a robust approach
Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (2010)Over the last few years, many studies have analyzed the productive efficiency of local governments in different countries. An accurate definition of their output bundles -i.e., the services and facilities they provide to ... -
Profit efficiency and earnings quality: Evidence from the Spanish banking industry
Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Illueca, Manuel Springer (2019-05)The analysis of efficiency and productivity in banking has received a great deal of attention for almost three decades now.However, most of the existing literature to date has not explicitly accounted for risk when measuring ... -
Risk-taking behavior, earnings quality, and bank performance: A profit frontier approach
García-Alcober, Mª Pilar; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Illueca, Manuel Elsevier (2019)After the financial crisis of 2007–2008, some bank performance dimensions have been the subject of debate, two of which are bank efficiency, and bank risk-taking behavior. The literature on bank efficiency and productivity ... -
Searching for the optimal territorial structure: the case of Spanish provincial councils
Narbón-Perpiñá, Isabel; Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili Taylor and Francis Group (2019)Modern states are organized in multi-level governance structures with economic and political authorities dispersed across them. However, although there is relatively widespread consensus that this form of organization ... -
Short and long-term evaluation of efficiency and quality : an application to Spanish municipalities
Balaguer-Coll, Maria Teresa; Prior, Diego Taylor & Francis (2009)This article analyses efficiency and quality levels in Spanish local governments and their determining factors through the application of the Data Envelopment Analysis methodology. It aims to discover to what extent ... -
Value added, educational accountability approaches and their effects on schools' rankings: Evidence from Chile
Thieme, Claudio; Prior, Diego; Tortosa-Ausina, Emili; Gempp, René 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 ...