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Five Puzzles in the Behaviour of Productivity, Investment and Innovation
Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
future of innovation? First-rate inventions in the 1990s, notably the web and user-friendly business productivity software … markets that welcome innovation, while Europe remains under the control of corporatist institutions that dampen competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123790
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Political Economics and Public Finance
Persson, Torsten; Tabellini, Guido - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Observed fiscal policy varies greatly across time and countries. How can we explain this variation? This paper surveys the recent literature that has tried to answer this question. We adopt a unified approach in portraying public policy as the equilibrium outcome of an explicitly specified...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067583
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Academic Dynasties: Decentralization and Familism in the Italian Academia
Durante, Ruben; Labartino, Giovanna; Perotti, Roberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Decentralization can lead to "good" or "bad" outcomes depending on the socio-cultural norms of the targeted communities. We investigate this issue by looking at the evolution of familism and nepotism in the Italian academia before and after the 1998 reform, which decentralized the recruitment of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367428
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Vive la Révolution! Long Term Returns of 1968 to the Angry Students
Maurin, Eric; McNally, Sandra - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The famous events of May 1968, starting with student riots, threw France into a state of turmoil. The period of ‘revolution’ coincided with the time in which important examinations are undertaken. As a result, normal examination procedures were abandoned and the pass-rate for various...
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The Design of the University System
De Fraja, Gianni; Valbonesi, Paola - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
chosen by a welfare maximising government. It studies a general equilibrium model where universities carry out research and … university chooses its tuition fee to maximise the amount of resources it can devote to research. Research bestows an externality … research. We find that government concentrates research more than the private market would, but less than it would like to do …
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Participation and Schooling in a Public System of Higher Education
Kelchtermans, Stijn; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
We analyze the determinants of participation (whether to study) and schooling (where and what to study) in a public system of higher education, based on a unique dataset of all eligible high school pupils in an essentially closed region (Flanders). We find that pupils perceive the available...
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Does university quality drive international student flows?
Van Bouwel, Linda; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
We examine whether the (research) quality of a country’s higher education system drives macro-flows of foreign tertiary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468612
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Efficient Tuition & Fees, Examinations and Subsidies
Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Trannoy, Alain - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
A student's future log-wage is given by the sum of a skill premium and a random personal ‘ability’ term. Students observe only a private, noisy signal of their ability, and universities can condition admission decisions on the results of noisy tests. We assume first that universities are...
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Guide to Reform of Higher Education: A European Perspective
Jacobs, Bas; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Although there are exceptions, most European universities and institutions of higher education find it difficult to compete with the best universities in the Anglo-Saxon world. Despite the Bologna agreement and the ambitions of the Lisbon agenda, European universities are in need of fundamental...
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Reducing Product Diversity in Higher Education
Kelchtermans, Stijn; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Public systems of higher education have recently attempted to cut costs by providing financial incentives to institutions who reduce the diversity of their programs. We study the profit and welfare effects of reducing product diversity in higher education, against the background of a funding...
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