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Unlocking green potential: How open government data enhances green economic efficiency in China?

Journal of Environmental Management
Open government data (OGD) is pivotal for urban sustainable development, and this study is the first to explore the relationship between OGD and urban green economic efficiency (GEE). Analyzing data from Chinese cities spanning 2008 to 2021 and employing
Lijuan Lv, Peiliang Zhang
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Fiscal Decentralization and Efficiency of Regional Government in Croatia: A Data Envelopment Analysis

Lex localis - Journal of Local Self-Government, 2019
To determine the efficiency of regional and local government public functions, the most used method in the empirical analysis is data envelopment analysis.
S. Hodžić
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Efficiency and returns-to-scale of local governments

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2012
Local governments of advanced countries often have financial problems. Most central governments promote re-organization of local governments into larger local governments in order to reduce operating costs. Although cost reductions have been discussed by governments, political parties, economic institutes, etc, changes in industrial efficiency in ...
H Amatatsu, T Ueda, Y Amatatsu
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Empty Voting and the Efficiency of Corporate Governance

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Abstract We model corporate voting outcomes when an informed trader, such as a hedge fund, can establish separate positions in a firm's shares and votes (empty voting). The positions are separated by borrowing shares on the record date, hedging economic exposure, or trading between record and voting dates.
Alon Brav, Richmond D. Mathews
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Establishing Efficient Governance through Data-Driven e-Government

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Electronic Governance, 2018
Economies are changing for the better with the evolution of technology and today, it is faster and cheaper to process data than before. Data in the 21st century reinforces all activities and is an enabler of growth in the wider economy. This paper explores big data in the public sector and buttresses the need for data-driven e-Government as the next ...
Ebenezer Agbozo, Kamen Spassov
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Technical Efficiency and Governance: The Case of China

2012
Inefficient resource use by its enterprises may challenge the sustainability of Chinas intense and prolonged growth. Relying on a properly representative database of mainland Chinas economy, we investigate whether inefficiencies depend on ownership. Moreover, our stochastic frontier approach allows more flexibility to identify sources of inefficiency ...
Giovanni Ferri, Li Gang Liu, MASTROMARCO, CAMILLA   +2 more
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Markets, Efficiency, and Governance

2017
This chapter provides an overview of markets and the conditions under which they fail to allocate society's resources efficiently from the perspective of neo-classical economic theory. The sources of market failures discussed are public goods, externalities, poorly defined property rights, high transaction costs, and information asymmetries.
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Efficiency evaluation of government investment for air pollution control in city clusters: A case from the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei areas in China

Frontiers of Engineering Management, 2023
Siqi Yang, Li Zhang, Zhaoxu Chen, Nan Li
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Government governance, executive networks and corporate investment efficiency

China Finance Review International, 2018
PurposeOwing to the importance of the investment behavior in China, the purpose of this paper is to find the influence of executive network and government governance on investment efficiency.Design/methodology/approachThe paper use China’s listed companies as sample to make an investment efficiency determinant model.FindingsIn this article, the authors
Xin Jin, Junli Yu
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How Does Government Spending Efficiency Affect Human Development in Africa?

Journal of Public Affairs
The performance of any government is evaluated by how well its citizens are doing and how the government makes use of resources available to guarantee that they are sufficient to ensure fundamental capabilities.
Olawale Daniel Akinyele, A. Adegboye, J. Dada   +2 more
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