28 research outputs found
Voting Power in the EU Council of Ministers and Fair Decision Making in Distributive Politics
Advancing Public Sector Performance. Introducing the special issue in honour of Professor Dr. Wim Moesen
Nonparametric Tests of Optimizing Behavior in Public Service Provision. Methodology and an Application to Local Public Safety
We develop a positive non-parametric model of public sector production that allows us to test whether an implicit procedure of cost minimization at shadow prices can rationalize the outcomes of public sector activities. The basic model focuses on multiple C-outputs and does not imply any explicit or implicit assumption regarding the trade-offs between the different inputs (in terms of relative shadow prices) or outputs (in terms of relative valuation). The proposed methodology is applied to a cross-section sample of 546 Belgian municipal police forces. Drawing on detailed task-allocation data and controlling, among others, for the presence of state police forces, the cost minimization hypothesis is found to provide a good fit of the data. Imposing additional structure on output valuation, derived from available ordinal information, yields equally convincing goodness-of-fit results. By contrast, we find that aggregating the labor input over task specializations, a common practice in efficiency assessments of police departments, entails a significantly worse fit of the data.Public agencies, optimizing behavior, nonparametric production, local police departments
Creating composite indicators with DEA and robustness analysis: the case of the Technology Achievement Index
Efficiency vectors, efficiency and performance measures: new methods for ranking efficient organizational units
Efficiency vector, Efficiency measure, Performance analysis, Ranking, Data envelopment analysis, Free disposal hull method, Deterministic frontier model, D24,