[PDF] Top 20 Assessing and Explaining the Relative Efficiency of Local Government: Evidence for Portuguese Municipalities

... Moretti and Oreopoulos (2004) analyse the beneficial outcomes deriving from educational attainment, exploring the potential positive externalities of education as “enhanced political ... See full document

... towards assessing the efficiency of public tertiary education expenditure in Portugal, and the conclusions drawn upon the reported evidence must be read with ... See full document

... those of the private sector, but with the mission of developing activities under the monitoring of the Local ...transfers the responsibility to produce ... See full document

... terms of envi- ronment and local conditions and feature a broad variance in important indicators such as popula- tion, number of municipalities, revenue, budget, and ... See full document

... During the period 1992-2003 Portuguese health care expenditure has rapidly increased with the share of public spending in total health spending also increasing from 60% in 1992 to around 70% ... See full document

... utilizes the Free Disposable Hull (FDH) methodology to compute those scores and it is described on the ...31 The major advantage of FDH analysis is that it imposes only weak assumptions ... See full document

... López-Hernández and Hernández-Bastida (2009), there are several ways for assessing local government financial conditions, but assets and liabilities are to be taken into account in ... See full document

... banks and its availability and function be communicated to consumers (Tan & Thoen, 2001; Suh & Han, ...consider the use of trust seals such as DigiCert, VeriSign, BBB ...30% of ... See full document

... analysis of the evolution of Portuguese government bonds yields in order to identify their main determinants for the period between 2000 and 2016 using quarterly ... See full document

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... to the size and depth of the government bond market and aims to capture the possibility of capital losses in the event of early liquidation or ... See full document

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... “rotation”). The restriction consisted of cars with license plates terminated by 0 and 1 being prohibited to circulate around downtown on Mondays, cars with license plates terminated by 2 and ... See full document

... in the use of NAC for the treatment of patients with ...MIBC. The most recent and largest study was published by the International Collaboration of Trialists, ... See full document

... ideological and party identification - includes: MPs’ left- right self-positioning; the distance of MPs’ position from the ideologically “neutral” centre (that is, from the median ... See full document

... process. The budget process offers the potentials of government programmers and their costs in the light of long range ...plan of action for the use ... See full document

... public and private entities in order to establish a service and may, or not, require the conception, financing and construction of public infrastructure for this purpose, «la notion de ... See full document

... describes the design and construction of 300W audio power amplifier for ...In the construction of this amplifier, microphone preamplifier, tone preamplifier, equalizer, line amplifier, ... See full document

... set of variables always employed in the literature are those measuring credit ...risk. Government bond yields include a risk premium which depends on the credit risk of the ...to ... See full document