[PDF] Top 20 Empirical determinants of government efficiency

... loggdppc | Coef. Std. Err. t P>|t| [95% Conf. Interval] -------------+---------------------------------------------------------------- ge | .0055515 .0034093 1.63 0.104 -.0011534 .0122563 t | -.0000649 .0007987 -0.08 ... See full document

... favor of good governance, not only because development would make good institutions affordable but also because it would make them more re- ...levels of GDP per capita or educational attainment by the adult ... See full document

... question of this paper is whether a country’s economic, political or cultural conditions explain differences in government ...most of the variables considered may, in turn, be influenced by ... See full document

... Our second concern had to do with government size. Our question was: if a wealthier nation has better performing governments than shouldn’t wealth- ier governments (or at least governments that spend more) be more ... See full document

... power of the OLS regression decreased to about ...importance of Steam Coal prices and the gross profit of power plants when accessing the settlement price of the EUA secondary ...power ... See full document

... (1997) empirical research demonstrates, for example, that the levels of local provision of educational services strongly depend on factors such as the “composition” of local ...composition ... See full document

... mobility of researchers (7%), recruitment of researchers (6%) and skilled personnel in enterprises (4%), job training of researchers and other personnel involved in innovation process (5%), career ... See full document

... lot of applied work using these GMM estimators has focused on results for the one-step estimator than the two-step ...modest efficiency gains from using the two-step version, even in the presence of ... See full document

... main determinants of gove- rnment borrowing costs over some “risk free” interest ...in empirical models, from the usual macroeconomic indica- tors and their expected values, such as GDP, inflation or ... See full document

... context of the present economic crisis, entrepreneurship has re- emerged as a topic of interest both for policy makers worldwide as well as for academic ...range of psychological, economic and ... See full document

... distribution of skills, intelligence, and even look not directly inherited and (b) what could be called luck, or the role that randomness plays in determining incomes in non-traditional and market- oriented ... See full document

... distribution of skills, intelligence, and even look not directly inherited and (b) what could be called luck, or the role that randomness plays in determining incomes in non-traditional and market- oriented ... See full document

... is empirical evidence today that inefficient institutions as measured by corruption and weak enforcement of contracts deter FDI ...variable of Knack and Keefer (1995), for instance, the quality ... See full document

... objective of this study was to apply a two-step methodology to investigate the technical efficiency and assess the factors that influence the efficiency of crop production in IADP Samarahan, ... See full document

... degree of openness, the investment-output ratio, tourist arrivals per head of population, tourism receipts in % of ex- ports, the black market premium, real GDP, secondary male enrolment, and the ... See full document

... efficiency of the ith firm is therefore a relative measure of its output as a proportion of the corresponding frontier ...period of 6 ...estimation of stochastic frontier models. The ... See full document

... The empirical evidence obtained allows us suggest important measures to support family- owned SMEs and non family-owned SMEs as well as owners/managers of these type of firms, to increase their ... See full document

... size of its public sector and the efficiency level with which it uses its (typically scarce) ...points of view to evaluate the performance of the public sector and understand the ... See full document

... Portuguese government bond ...expectations of tax hikes (and other austerity measures), which narrow the government bond ...rules of the Growth and Stability Pact of the European Union ... See full document

... state of affairs is that, due to the different scopes, approaches and methods used in the different empirical studies, synthesizing results is not an easy ...consequence of the comprehensive nature ... See full document