Sizing the government

Measuring the efficiency of decision making units

A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper, Edwardo L. Rhodes · European Journal of Operational Research · 1978 · 28.3K citations · Full text

Some Models for Estimating Technical and Scale Inefficiencies in Data Envelopment Analysis

Rajiv D. Banker, A. Charnes, W. W. Cooper · Management Science · 1984 · 16.4K citations

Mathematical Programming, Resource Productivity, Resource Efficiency +25

The American Economic Review

American Economic Review · 2013 · 15.2K citations

Front Matter, Economics, Economic Policy +9

Government Spending in a Simple Model of Endogeneous Growth

Robert J. Barro · Journal of Political Economy · 1990 · 6.1K citations · Full text

A Rational Theory of the Size of Government

Allan H. Meltzer, Scott F. Richard · Journal of Political Economy · 1981 · 5.4K citations

Optimal Taxation, Fiscal Issue, General Equilibrium Model +17