Benchmarking institutional variety in the eurozone: An empirical investigation

Casagrande, Sara; Dallago, Bruno

doi:10.1016/j.ecosys.2020.100838

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“…, 2016), mutual fund performance (Beber et al. , 2021), performance of European countries in economic, social and political fields (Casagrande and Dallago, 2021), hotel service quality (Park and Lee, 2021), and autonomous vehicles security and reliability (Khadka et al. , 2021) amongst others.…”

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“…Share of university graduates amongst the adult population aged under 65 years Statista (2020) (continued ) 3.2 The concept of the benchmark Benchmarks were applied to achieve the aim of this paper. Benchmarks are widely applied to analyse various topics: high school education system improvements (Le et al, 2021), CO 2 emissions for buildings (Jeong et al, 2021), energy consumption for buildings (Park et al, 2016;Jeong et al, 2016), mutual fund performance (Beber et al, 2021), performance of European countries in economic, social and political fields (Casagrande and Dallago, 2021), hotel service quality (Park and Lee, 2021), and autonomous vehicles security and reliability (Khadka et 2021) amongst others. Christ et al (2017) emphasised that benchmarking can be increasingly applied to municipalities when sustainable development receives greater importance.…”

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Assessing the European Union capitals in the context of smart sustainable cities

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Skvarciany³

2022

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PurposeThe concept of a smart city, which is relatively new, is analysed from different aspects, including sustainability. Due to rapid urban development, smart city and sustainable city synergy has become an approach supported by the authorities. Hence, the paper aims at assessing and ranking the European Union (EU) capitals in the context of the smart sustainable city (SSC).Design/methodology/approachThe paper assesses and ranks 19 EU capitals according to 41 indicators. The assessment was done in four steps. First, each target SSC indicator was accessed for each city. Second, the scattering results of each city in the list of indicators were noted. Third, the indicators were ranked using the VIsekriterijumska optimisacija i KOmpromisno Resenje (VIKOR) method. And fourth, both scattering and ranking results were compared.FindingsThe comparison of the scattering and ranking results revealed that almost the same cities share the top ten positions. Although two cities fell out of the top ten, the overall results reinforce the reliability of the research results. Amsterdam ranked as the Number 1 SSC, and Helsinki took the second position.Originality/valueA comparison of a wide range of indicators highlights the current situation and the disparities between EU capitals. The results could help local and national authorities and policymakers increase the sustainability and smartness of cities.

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Assessing the European Union capitals in the context of smart sustainable cities

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Stasytytė²,

Skvarciany³

2022

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“…Surely peripheral countries should improve the workings of their own institutions. This improvement could take place by overcoming inefficiencies in terms of market, state and social failures and externalities inside economic, social and political institutions (see Casagrande/Dallago 2021;. But a change of mentality is needed, which is able to understand the role of public expenditure for the progress of a country (Zuleeg/Schneider 2015) and the importance of a cooperative attitude on the part of the surplus countries for solving macroeconomic imbalances.…”

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The European core–periphery divide: towards a new narrative

Casagrande

Dallago

2023

European Journal of Economics and Economic Policies Intervention

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Economic theory has recently begun to consider the economic impact of narratives. Narrative economics can also be extended to the analysis of the economic-political effect of narratives in the context of the European core-periphery divide, which intensified after the European sovereign-debt crisis. The dominant narrative of the crisis has placed a lot of responsibility on southern member countries. With the outbreak of the COVID-19 emergency, this narrative has returned to influence European public debate. The authors state the importance of analysing the dominant narrative to understand its validity in explaining the sovereign-debt crisis, and the importance of overcoming it to face the health emergency effectively. Therefore, starting from some alternative explanations regarding the European crisis, a new alternative narrative is presented, which underlines the issues connected to the competitive attitude among member countries and the political disequilibrium that characterizes Economic and Monetary Union architecture.

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“…Missing data are handled according to the methodology suggested in the Asia-Pacific Trade and Investment Report of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP): when possible, missing values are imputed using linear interpolation, the nearest non-missing value is used in the other cases; in any case, no information is taken from other countries for imputing the missing values (see [42], p. 182). See [43] for more details about the DTF score methodology, computation and its use for comparisons among European countries. A1 for country codes; all figures have been produced using MATLAB).…”

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To Be, or Not to Be: The Role of Self-Perception in European Countries’ Performance Assessment

Casagrande

Dallago²

2022

Sustainability

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Performance evaluation is commonly based on objective indicators which do not explicitly consider the role of perceptions. Especially when evaluating countries’ performance, citizens’ perceptions can influence public debate and socio-economic narratives. Since these may influence policy making and countries’ performance, perceptions should not be ignored. The objective of this article is to investigate the presence of discrepancies between objective performance and self-perception (subjective performance) among European Union countries. The aim is to raise awareness of the importance of recognizing biases in performance perception as factors that may hamper European debate, countries’ relations and, thus, the political and social sustainability of the European project. The article considers five spending areas that may influence the public opinion’s assessment about countries’ performance (education, environmental protection, health, public order and safety and social protection) and compares objective and subjective indicators for 28 EU countries from 2007 to 2017 using the distance-to-frontier score methodology. The results indicate that the discrepancies are significant, with a generalized tendency toward overestimation, especially among some Central and Northern European countries. The opposite occurred in Greece and some Eastern European countries. These results represent a starting point for grasping an undervalued aspect of the complexity of the European socio-economic environment.

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Benchmarking institutional variety in the eurozone: An empirical investigation

Cited by 9 publications

References 17 publications

Assessing the European Union capitals in the context of smart sustainable cities

Assessing the European Union capitals in the context of smart sustainable cities

The European core–periphery divide: towards a new narrative

To Be, or Not to Be: The Role of Self-Perception in European Countries’ Performance Assessment

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