Handbook on Public Sector Efficiency

Edited by António Afonso, João Tovar Jalles and Ana Venâncio, ISEG – Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal

• Contents:Introduction to public sector efficiencyAntónio Afonso, João Tovar Jalles, Ana Venâncio 1PART I SIZE AND QUALITY OF THE GOVERNMENT1 The size of government 6António Afonso, Ludger Schuknecht, Vito Tanzi2 The quality of public finances 32Michael Thöne3 Government spending efficiency, measurement and applications:A cross-country efficiency dataset 44António Afonso, João Tovar Jalles, Ana Venâncio4 Methodologies for assessing government efficiency 72Caitlin O’Loughlin, Léopold Simar, Paul W. WilsonPART II PUBLIC SECTOR EFFICIENCY, AND INSTITUTIONS AND FIRMS5 Overall Public sector efficiency 103Antonis Adam, Sofia Tsarsitalidou6 On the persistence of public sector efficiency and the roleof historical institutional quality 129Konstantinos Angelopoulos, Pantelis Kammas7 Handbook on public sector efficiency, government efficiency and fiscal rules 148Amélie Barbier-Gauchard, Kéa Baret, Xavier Debrun8 Pension spending efficiency 176Boele Bonthuis9 Public−private partnerships, fiscal risks and efficiency 196Gerd Schwartz, Özlem Aydin, Rui Monteiro, Isabel Rial10 State-owned enterprises: Struggling to be efficient 218Paulo Medas, Mouhamadou SyPART III PUBLIC SECTOR EFFICIENCY IN THE EDUCATION, HEALTH,AND SOCIAL PROTECTION SECTORS11 Public spending efficiency in compulsory education 249Douglas Sutherland12 The efficiency of higher education institutions and systems 272Tommaso Agasisti13 Efficiency of public health spending 289Pedro Pita Barros, Eduardo Costa14 Evaluating the efficiency of social protection spending 310David Coady, Samir Jahan15 Efficiency of public investment and implications for the optimallevel of public investment 334Jean-Marc Fournier, Fabien GonguetPART IV PUBLIC SECTOR EFFICIENCY ACROSS THE WORLD16 Efficiency and economic growth: A panel analysis of Colombian regions 353Luis Alberto Gutiérrez-Arango, Víctor Giménez, Daniel Osorio-Barreto,Diego Prior17 Analysing public sector efficiency of the Indian States 370Ranjan Kumar Mohanty , N R Bhanumurthy, Biresh K. Sahoo18 Estimating returns to scale for the science and technology activitiesof project 985 universities in China 405Yao-yao Song, Xian-tong Ren, Guo-liang Yang, Zhong-cheng Guan19 Political short termism and government spending efficiencyin Sub-Saharan Africa 427Sijuola Orioye Olanubi, Oluwanbepelumi Esther OlanubiIndex 440

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