Efficiency Defense and Administrative Fuzziness in Merger Regulation

Merger Simulation in an Administrative Context

Merger Efficiency and Managerial Incentives

Administrative Costs and Production Efficiency

Economists providing policy advice often justify recommendations of government non-interference in the allocation of resources between production sectors and free trade with reference to the Diamond and Mirrlees efficiency theorem. However, such policy advice may be misleading when, as is in general the case, administrative costs effectively restrict the set of feasible tax instruments availabl...

Efficiency and administrative costs in primary care.

We use a formal model to examine the implications of endogenous managerial effort for the interpretation and estimation of efficiency in health care organisations. The model is applied to investigate the doubling of the cost of administering primary care in England in real terms between 1989/1990 and 1994/1995. The main cost determinant was the number of general practitioners (GPs), and there w...

Administrative Management, Administrative Regulation and the Judicial Process

In discussing problems connected with what is called public administration and administrative law, confusion not infrequently results from a failure to understand at the outset what is meant by the term "administration". A distinguished authority 1 has described administration as essentially the process of translating the general into the particular, and, as one phase of this process, the task ...