2013
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2365007
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Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence for Latin America

Abstract: We compute Public Sector Performance (PSP) and Public Sector Efficiency (PSE) indicators and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) efficiency scores for a sample of twenty-three Latin American and Caribbean Countries (LAC) to measure efficiency of public spending for the period 2001-2010. Our results show that the PSE is inversely correlated with the size of the government, while the efficiency frontier is essentially defined by Chile, Guatemala, and Peru. Moreover, on average, output quantities could theoretically … Show more

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“…That is, publicly funded R&D contributes to increase both the performance and efficiency of European public sectors. Additionally, as also concluded by Afonso et al ( , 2013 a diminishing marginal effect from overall public spending can be discerned. As in some business literature firms' R&D productivity is claimed to decline with firm size (due to, for instance, more flexible and non-hierarchical structures), PSE of countries seems to drop off as the size of their public sector increases (due to, for instance, higher coordination and transaction costs).…”
Section: Conclusion and Policy Implicationssupporting
confidence: 54%
“…That is, publicly funded R&D contributes to increase both the performance and efficiency of European public sectors. Additionally, as also concluded by Afonso et al ( , 2013 a diminishing marginal effect from overall public spending can be discerned. As in some business literature firms' R&D productivity is claimed to decline with firm size (due to, for instance, more flexible and non-hierarchical structures), PSE of countries seems to drop off as the size of their public sector increases (due to, for instance, higher coordination and transaction costs).…”
Section: Conclusion and Policy Implicationssupporting
confidence: 54%
“…Os inputs e outputs utilizados neste estudo foram utilizados também por Beuren, Moura e Kloeppel (2013) Além do DEA, que calcula os índices de eficiência, utilizou-se uma regressão censurada Tobit com o intuito de estimar quais variáveis podem influenciar os índices obtidos pelo DEA. Observou-se outros estudos, nacionais e internacionais, que utilizam o modelo de regressão Tobit quando a variável dependente é calculada por meio de DEA (BATIR; VOLKMAN; GUNGOR, 2017;LIU;ZHANG;FU, 2017;FLACH, 2017;FLACH, 2015;BOHN et al, 2015;SELIM;BURSALIOGLU, 2013;HSU, 2013; MUKOKOMA; VAN DIJK, 2013;ROMERO;MONSALVE, 2013;HSU;HSUEH, 2009;VARELA;MARTINS;FÁVERO, 2008). O fato do índice de eficiência variar entre 0 e 1 torna-se a aplicação de modelos de regressão de Mínimos Quadrados Ordinários (MQO) inviável, uma vez que pode gerar estimativas inconsistentes dos parâmetros, razão pela qual diversos estudos têm considerado modelos do tipo Tobit (SOUZA; STAUB; TABAK, 2006;BOHN et al, 2015).…”
Section: Metodologiaunclassified
“…A number of economists applied non-parametric techniques to measure public sector performance and efficiency (Herrera and Pang, 2005, Afonso, Schuknecht and Tanzi, 2005, 2010a, 2010b, Afonso and Aubyn, 2005, 2006, Sutherland 2007, Adam, Delis and Kammas, 2011, Afonso, Romero and Monsalve, 2013, Afonso and Kazemi, 2017, Herrera and Ouedrago, 2018, Mohanty and Bhanumurthy, 2018.…”
Section: Non-parametric Assessment Of Government Sizementioning
confidence: 99%