Public sector efficiency: leveling the playing field between OECD countries

Adam, Antonis; Delis, Manthos D.; Kammas, Pantelis

doi:10.1007/s11127-009-9588-7

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“…In essence, it is more flexible than the parametric approach. Further, DEA has been extensively used to measure public sector efficiency in many countries by many researchers and, like Verma and Gavirneni (2006), Hauner (2007), Adam et al (2011) point out, DEA has been so popular because it is easy to draw on diagrams and easy to calculate. Apart from the above reasons, DEA is chosen here because it is more reliable for measuring the technical efficiency as it can be applied to multi-input and multi-output variables.…”

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Measuring Relative Efficiency of Secondary Education in Selected Eu and Oecd Countries: The Case of Slovenia and Croatia

Aristovnik

Obadić

2014

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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Abstract. This article continues on a number of previous studies by other scientists in investigating secondary education efficiency by applying a non-parametric methodology. In this respect, the purpose of the article is to review some previous studies on measuring the efficiency of public (secondary) education sector as well as some conceptual and methodological issues of a non-parametric approach. Most importantly, the Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) technique is presented and then applied to a wide range of EU and OECD countries, including Slovenia and Croatia, to evaluate the technical efficiency of secondary education. The empirical results show that technical efficiency in secondary education varies significantly across the great majority of EU and OECD countries. Both Slovenia and Croatia show a relatively high level of technical inefficiency in their secondary education as they respectively only rank in the third and fourth quartiles among selected countries. Therefore, rationalising public secondary education spending is strongly recommended with possible redirecting of some excessive resources to the tertiary education sector.

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“…common for measuring technical efficiency 1 as it can be applied to multi-input and multi-output variables. The analysis includes 31 EU (plus Croatia) and OECD countries in 1999-2007 period.…”

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Measuring Relative Efficiency of Secondary Education in Selected Eu and Oecd Countries: The Case of Slovenia and Croatia

Aristovnik

Obadić

2014

Technological and Economic Development of Economy

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“…Thus, assessing and comparing the performance of several national healthcare systems provides an opportunity for policy makers to determine how well a particular national healthcare system is performing relative to its international peers, understand how it works in order to identify good and bad practices, and finally find more effective approaches to achieve sustainability and better quality (Nolte et al, 2006). Identifying performance indicators and developing measurement frameworks have become an important concern of both policy makers and scholars (Adam et al, 2011). Both international agencies and academic scholars have proposed various sets of metrics, benchmarking tools, assessment guidelines, and performance evaluation techniques to help healthcare policy makers monitor and evaluate the performance of national healthcare systems, and conduct benchmarking studies both at the national and international levels (World Health Organization, 2010).…”

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Efficiency vs Effectiveness: a Benchmarking Study on European Healthcare Systems

Storto¹,

Goncharuk²

2017

Economics &Amp; Sociology

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ABSTRACT. This paper illustrates a benchmarking study concerning the healthcare systems in 32 European countries as of 2011 and 2014. Particularly, this study proposes a two-dimensional approach (efficiency/effectiveness models) to evaluate the performance of national healthcare systems. Data Envelopment Analysis has been adopted to compute two performance indices, measuring efficiency and effectiveness of these healthcare systems. The results of the study emphasize that the national healthcare systems achieve different efficiency and effectiveness levels. Their performance indices are uncorrelated and behave differently over time, suggesting that there might be no real trade-off between them. The healthcare systems' efficiencies remain generally stable, while the effectiveness values significantly improved from 2011 to 2014. However, comparing the efficiency and effectiveness scores, the authors identified a group of countries with the lowest performing healthcare systems that includes Ukraine, Bulgaria, Switzerland, Lithuania, and Romania. These countries need to implement healthcare reforms aimed at reducing resource intensity and increasing the quality of medical services. The results also showed the benefits of the proposed approach, which can help policy makers to identify shortcomings in national healthcare systems and justify the need for their reform.JEL Classification: C14, H51, I18, M40

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“…Mainly, our 14 The description of specific alternatives to overcome this difficulty goes beyond the scope of this theoretical analysis. 15 See Adam et al (2011) and Rodríguez-Álvarez and Rosete-Rivero (2017) as illustrations of the application of these methods. approach would allow translation of measures of (in)efficiencies into to a monetary value.…”

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How costly are public sector inefficiencies? A theoretical framework for rationalising fiscal consolidations

Fernández

Fuentes

2017

Economics

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Fiscal adjustments consisting of spending cuts or tax increases are generally presented as the unavoidable way for achieving public finance sustainability in the long term. However, this view of fiscal consolidation processes is limited as it leaves out other aspects related to public sector performance which are relevant not only from the macroeconomic but also from the microeconomic perspective. This paper models Public Sector Performance (PSP) by proposing a theoretical framework that integrates the conventional methodology for measuring its productive efficiency and the monetary assessment of social welfare changes linked to public policy reforms. Two equivalent measures of social welfare change generated by improving (or worsening) productive efficiency are deduced using duality theory. The first is obtained from the cost function, while the second arises directly from the production function. The results reveal that taking advantage of budgetary savings obtained from this approach constitutes a valuable tool for designing welfareenhancing fiscal consolidation packages, meanwhile promoting sound fiscal balances and growth prospects over the long term.JEL D24 D60 D61 H40 H50

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Public sector efficiency: leveling the playing field between OECD countries

Cited by 92 publications

References 53 publications

Measuring Relative Efficiency of Secondary Education in Selected Eu and Oecd Countries: The Case of Slovenia and Croatia

Measuring Relative Efficiency of Secondary Education in Selected Eu and Oecd Countries: The Case of Slovenia and Croatia

Efficiency vs Effectiveness: a Benchmarking Study on European Healthcare Systems

How costly are public sector inefficiencies? A theoretical framework for rationalising fiscal consolidations

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