ListarIIDL_Articles por tema "efficiency"
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An international comparison of educational systems: a temporal analysis in presence of bad outputs
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?
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. ...
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Evaluating local government performance in times of crisis
Taylor and Francis Group (2019)In recent years, Spanish local governments have come under increasing pressure to accommodate severe economic restrictions while maintaining their provision of local public services. We analyse overall cost efficiency in ...
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Evaluation of efficiency in Colombian hospitals: An analysis for the post-reform period
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 ...
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Explaining local governments' cost efficiency: Controllable and uncontrollable factors
Elsevier (2020-05)Efficient and effective management of public resources is essential at all levels of government. This issue has gained momentum due to the strains that affected public sector finances after the onset of the 2007/08 crisis ...
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Local government efficiency: determinants and spatial interdependence
Taylor and Francis Group (2019)We analyse the determinants of local government efficiency taking into account the presence of spatial interactions among neighbouring municipalities. To do so, first we estimate an efficiency index using the robust order-m ... -
Profit efficiency and earnings quality: Evidence from the Spanish banking industry
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 ...
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Quality of government and economic growth at the municipal level: Evidence from Spain
Wiley (2021-07-21)This paper analyzes the relationship between government efficiency—an important dimension of quality of government—and economic growth at the municipal level in 1,820 Spanish municipalities during the period 2008–2015. At ...
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Which estimator to measure local governments’ costefficiency? The case of Spanish municipalities
Springer Verlag (2019)WeanalyseoverallcostefficiencyinSpanishlocalgovernmentsduringthecrisisperiod(2008–2015). To this end, we first consider some of the most popular nonparametricmethods to evaluate local government efficiency, data envelopment ...
