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Assessing and Explaining the Performance of Public Enterprises: Some Recent Evidence from the Productive Efficiency Viewpoint

In: Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition

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  • Pierre Pestieau

    (Université de Liège and CORE)

  • Henry Tulkens

Abstract

From a general discussion of the notion of economic performance as applied to public enterprises, we first observe that productive efficiency is the least ambiguous and most generally desirable form of performance for such firms. We then discuss the type of relation expected to hold between a firm’s productive efficiency on the one hand and on the other hand characteristics pertaining to ownership, objectives, regulation, and competition. Next we review a number of empirical efficiency studies which are aimed at testing the effect of those characteristics on firms’ productive efficiency. In conclusion, we offer some evaluative remarks on the public policy implications of efficiency measurement in public sector economics.

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  • Pierre Pestieau & Henry Tulkens, 2006. "Assessing and Explaining the Performance of Public Enterprises: Some Recent Evidence from the Productive Efficiency Viewpoint," Springer Books, in: Parkash Chander & Jacques Drèze & C. Knox Lovell & Jack Mintz (ed.), Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition, chapter 0, pages 343-372, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-0-387-25534-7_18
    DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-25534-7_18
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    1. Tim Coelli & Sergio Perelman & Elliot Romano, 1999. "Accounting for Environmental Influences in Stochastic Frontier Models: With Application to International Airlines," Journal of Productivity Analysis, Springer, vol. 11(3), pages 251-273, June.
    2. Jorge Pinilla & Joaquim Vergés, 2007. "Efectos De La Privatización En La Eficiencia De Iberia Líneas Aéreas De España S.A," Revista Economía y Administración, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Administrativas, Universidad de Concepción, vol. 69, pages 7-38, December.
    3. Gordon, Roger, 2001. "Taxes and Privatization," CEPR Discussion Papers 2977, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    4. Gathon, H. -J. & Pestieau, P., 1995. "Decomposing efficiency into its managerial and its regulatory components: The case of European railways," European Journal of Operational Research, Elsevier, vol. 80(3), pages 500-507, February.
    5. Bruce Hollingsworth, 2008. "The measurement of efficiency and productivity of health care delivery," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(10), pages 1107-1128, October.
    6. Pestieau, Pierre & Perelman, Sergio & Lefebvre, Mathieu & Coelli, Tim, 2010. "On the Welfare State Performance in the European Union," CEPR Discussion Papers 8096, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    7. A. Goldstein, 1996. "Privatizations and corporate governance in France," BNL Quarterly Review, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro, vol. 49(199), pages 455-488.
    8. Achraf TARSIM, 2008. "L’efficience du secteur ferroviaire européen : Analyse stochastique des effets de la réforme et de la qualité des services," CIRIEC Working Papers 0809, CIRIEC - Université de Liège.

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