• openAccess   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 ...
    • closedAccess   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 ...
    • closedAccess   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 ...
    • openAccess   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 ...
    • openAccess   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 ...
    • openAccess   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 ...
    • openAccess   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 ...
    • openAccess   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 ...
    • openAccess   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 ...