Public sector efficiency: An international comparison

By António Afonso, Ludger Schuknecht, V. Tanzi. Social Science Research Network, 2005

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management Science and Operations Research

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Government Size, Composition, Volatility and Economic Growth (2008, neutral): “8 Afonso et al.(2005a) report that so-called “ big governments ” seem to perform less ef ﬁ ciently than “ smaller governments.”
The effectiveness and efficiency of public spending (2008, background): “See for more details P.C. Smith/A. Street (2005), A. Pritchard (2001) for the Productivity measurement in the UK 5 Afonso et al. (2005), etc. Figure 1: Conceptual framework”
Determinants of Government Efficiency (2008, methodology): “To further investigate the direction of causality, we run the same specification with the two-step system GMM estimator of Arellano and Bover (1995) and Blundell and Bond (1998).(6) The results, which are available on request, are not clear: for PSE, we find a significant negative effect confirming ”
The Distributional Impact of in Kind Public Benefits in European Countries (2009, neutral): “Aubyn (2005) and Afonso et al.(2005) who examine the efficiency of the public sector in a comparative cross-sectional setting. 6 More specifically, figures from Table X2.5 (p. 434) (Annual expenditure on educational institutions per student for all services (2003) in equivalent euros converted using”
Sustainable procurement in the public sector: an international comparative study (2011, background): “Regarding the scale of public procurement, recent estimates suggesting that between 8 and 25 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries and 16 per cent of European Union (EU) GDP being attributable to government purchases o”
The macroeconomics of fiscal consolidations in euro area countries (2010, background): “In both cases total expenditure in Germany would decrease by about 1/4, roughly the same number that Afonso et al. (2005) find, using a completely different approach.”
Public sector efficiency: leveling the playing field between OECD countries (2008, methodology): “Afonso et al. (2006) estimated the public sector efficiency of the new EU member states and emerging economies. Using a parametric methodology, Angelopoulos et al. (2007) obtained relative public sector efficiency scores for a world sample of 64 countries over the period 1980-2000.”
The state of the world's bureaucracies (2006, neutral): “Researchers at the European Central Bank created a stir in 2003 by releasing a working paper on ‘‘Public sector efficiency: an international comparison’’ (Afonso et al. 2003).”
Measuring and explaining government efficiency in developing countries (2007, background): “This is a distinct concept from efficiency, which explicitly links outputs to the amount of inputs utilized (see Afonso et al., 2003).”
Does public sector efficiency matter? Revisiting the relation between fiscal size and economic growth in a world sample (2008, positive): “We follow the methodology of Afonso et al. (2005) for the OECD and construct measures of public sector efficiency (PSE).”
Transport Infrastructure Development, Public Performance and Long-Run Economic Growth: A Case Study for the Eu-28 Countries (2018, background): “Starting from the point that increasing the efficiency and the effectiveness of public sector not only have a major influence over maintaining sustainable growth path but can achieve superior results regarding the status of transport infrastructure, the indicators chosen for to measure the status of”