This paper discusses rising enrolment rates, access, governance, underperformance in research and teaching, lack of … governance, more competition and internationalisation. Apart from providing mutual policy learning opportunities, cross …, researchers and teachers and open up national funding schemes. The EU should take more initiatives to fund research through the …

may combine positive effects of computer uses without equivalently effective alternative traditional teaching practices … and negative effects of uses that substitute more effective teaching practices. Our correlated random effects models …

Despite the social importance of awards, they have been largely disregarded by academic research in economics. This …’ subsequent research activity and status compared to a synthetic control group of non-recipient scholars with similar previous … research performance. We find evidence of positive incentive and status effects that raise both productivity and citation …

signaling research talent to outsiders. Awards should therefore be taken seriously as a means of motivating research that may …

, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university …,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern research. Academia, in a broader sense understood as “the locus of seeking … truth and learning through methodological inquiry,” will subsist in different forms. The conclusion is therefore pessimistic …

We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … a higher teaching quality but pay higher tuition fees. …

with experience. We then reject increasing confidence in private information or learning about the structure of the …

We derive the optimal monetary policy in a sticky price model when private agents follow adaptive learning. We show … order to facilitate private sector learning and thus ease the future intratemporal inflation-output gap trade-offs. The … policy recommendation is robust: the welfare loss entailed by the optimal policy under learning if the private sector …

. Learning played a major role in individuals achieving what was referred to as complete rationality. I draw on these ideas, and …