Details about Giancarlo Ferrara

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Working Papers

2022

1. Fiscal decentralization and efficiency: empirical evidence from Italian municipalities
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2021

2. Imposing monotonicity in stochastic frontier models: an iterative nonlinear least squares procedure
   CEIS Research Paper, Tor Vergata University, CEIS View citations (2)
   See also Journal Article Imposing Monotonicity in Stochastic Frontier Models: An Iterative Nonlinear Least Squares Procedure, Computational Economics, Springer (2026) (2026)
3. Presumptive taxation and firms’ efficiency: an integrated approach for tax compliance analysis
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

2019

4. Disentangling tax evasion from inefficiency in firms tax declaration: an integrated approach
   CEIS Research Paper, Tor Vergata University, CEIS

2013

5. Labour-use Efficiency in the Italian Machinery Industry: a Non-parametric Stochastic Frontier Perspective
   MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany

Journal Articles

2026

1. Determinants of Migrants’ Remittances During the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of Italian Provinces
   Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2026, 27, (2), 953-974
2. Harnessing draft animal power: boosting efficiency in smallholder conventional farming
   Applied Economics, 2026, 58, (30), 6125-6138
3. Imposing Monotonicity in Stochastic Frontier Models: An Iterative Nonlinear Least Squares Procedure
   Computational Economics, 2026, 68, (2), 1155-1189
   See also Working Paper Imposing monotonicity in stochastic frontier models: an iterative nonlinear least squares procedure, CEIS Research Paper (2021) View citations (2) (2021)

2024

4. Female presence in local government and cost efficiency: the case of Italian municipalities
   Regional Studies, 2024, 58, (1), 16-29 View citations (4)
5. Local government spending efficiency and fiscal decentralization: evidence from Italian municipalities
   Applied Economics, 2024, 56, (5), 599-614 View citations (6)
6. National Environmental Taxes and Industrial Waste in Countries across Europe
   Energies, 2024, 17, (10), 1-13
7. US banks efficiency after global financial crisis: Transient and persistent decomposition
   The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, 2024, 72, (C)

2023

8. Audit, presumptive taxation and efficiency: An integrated approach for tax compliance analysis
   Economic Systems, 2023, 47, (3)
9. Cohesion Policy Funds and local government autonomy: Evidence from Italian municipalities
   Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 2023, 87, (PB) View citations (5)

2019

10. How efficient is maize production among smallholder farmers in Zimbabwe? A comparison of semiparametric and parametric frontier efficiency analyses
    Applied Economics, 2019, 51, (26), 2855-2871 View citations (3)

2017

11. Semiparametric stochastic frontier models: A generalized additive model approach
    European Journal of Operational Research, 2017, 258, (2), 761-777 View citations (27)

2015

12. Analyzing Italian citrus sector by semi-nonparametric frontier efficiency models
    Empirical Economics, 2015, 49, (2), 641-658 View citations (13)

2008

13. Fitting generalized linear models with unspecified link function: A P-spline approach
    Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 2008, 52, (5), 2529-2537 View citations (7)