TY  - BOOK
AU  - Chong,Alberto
AU  - Porta,Rafael La
AU  - Lopez-de-Silanes,Florencio
AU  - Shleifer,Andrei
ED  - National Bureau of Economic Research.
TI  - Letter Grading Government Efficiency
T2  - NBER working paper series
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - National Bureau of Economic Research
N1  - August 2012; Hardcopy version available to institutional subscribers
N2  - We mailed letters to non-existent business addresses in 159 countries (10 per country), and measured whether they come back to the return address in the US and how long it takes. About 60% of the letters were returned, taking over 6 months, on average. The results provide new objective indicators of government efficiency across countries, based on a simple and universal service, and allow us to shed light on its determinants. The evidence suggests that both technology and management quality influence the quality of government
UR  - https://www.nber.org/papers/w18268
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3386/w18268
ER  -