IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/elg/eechap/19879_5.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Overall public sector efficiency

In: Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency

Author

Listed:
  • Antonis Adam
  • Sofia Tsarsitalidou

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the measurement and determinants of overall public sector efficiency. We derive Order-m efficiency scores, which deal with outliers and measurement error and avoid the “curse of dimensionality”, for 119 countries during the 2000-2020 period and compare the results with FDH and DEA scores. Then, we use the derived Order-m efficiency score to evaluate the robustness of the determinants of public sector efficiency as identified in the existing literature. Except for democracy, where we find that more democratic countries are less efficient, we verify the effect of the rest of the determinants in our framework.

Suggested Citation

  • Antonis Adam & Sofia Tsarsitalidou, 2023. "Overall public sector efficiency," Chapters, in: António Afonso & João Tovar Jalles & Ana Venâncio (ed.), Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency, chapter 5, pages 103-128, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19879_5
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.elgaronline.com/view/edcoll/9781839109164/9781839109164.00012.xml
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:19879_5. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Darrel McCalla (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.e-elgar.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.