Template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Gisela Di Meglio 
Author-Person: pdi382 
Author-Workplace-Name: 	Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico II (Economía Cuantitativa) 
	(Department of Foundations of Economic Analysis II (Quantitative Economics)), Instituto Complutense 
	de Analisis Economico (ICAE). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales (Faculty of Economics and Business), Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Complutense University of 
	Madrid)
Author-Name: Stefano Visintin 
Author-Workplace-Name: 	University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Labour Studies. The Netherlands 

Title: Efficiency of the Services Sector: a Parametric Approach 
Abstract: The question if countries are achieving their maximum production given resource allocation is at the very 
	centre of contemporary debates. The issue becomes even more relevant when directed to service activities, due to 
	their cardinal role in modern societies. However, hardly any studies perform cross-country efficiency comparison 
	of service sectors at aggregated level. The paper aims at measuring and comparing technical efficiency of (total 
	and market) services across 16 developed economies during the past three decades. The empirical estimations are 
	performed by means of frontier parametric techniques applied to both panel data and cross-sectional data. Benchmark 
	figures, useful for cross-country comparison and policy analysis, are provided for efficiency scores and for 
	their evolution across time.
Keywords: Service sector; Efficiency; Parametric methods; Panel data; Benchmarking.
Classification-JEL: C14, D24, L80.
Length: 30 pages
Creation-Date: 2014-07 
Number: 2014-19 
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File-URL: https://eprints.ucm.es/id/eprint/26130/1/1419.pdf
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Handle: RePEc:ucm:doicae:1419