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Frey, Bruno S.; Rost, Katja - CESifo - 2008

Publication and citation rankings have become major indicators of the scientific worth of universities and countries …

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Frey, Bruno S. - CESifo - 2010

Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of “university,” and inadequate organizational forms for modern...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671696

Push or Pull? An Empirical Analysis of the Demand for Individual Project Grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation

Wolter, Stefan C.; Hübschi, Rémy; Müller, Matthias - CESifo - 2007

This study empirically analyses on the basis of a panel of grant requests to the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF. From the results it can be concluded, that the different scientific disciplines react in very different ways to the institutional and financial framework conditions set by...

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Higher Education Reform and the Renewed Lisbon Strategy: Role of Member States and the European Commission

Ploeg, Frederick Van der; Veugelers, Reinhilde - CESifo - 2007

internationalisation, private returns to education and the funding problems of European universities. Our proposals for reform are based on … more autonomy for universities, higher tuition fees, more private funding, introduction of income-contingent loans, better …

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Efficient Tuition Fees, Examinations, and Subsidies (new title: Efficient tuition fees and subsidies)

Gary-Bobo, Robert J.; Trannoy, Alain - CESifo - 2004

earnings, which depends on personal "ability". Students receive 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 maximizing social surplus … asymmetries of information are bilateral, i.e., if universities observe a private signal of each student's ability, or if there …

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Financing Higher Education and Labor Mobility

Demange, Gabrielle; Fenge, Robert; Uebelmesser, Silke - CESifo - 2008

This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...

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Real Options and Human Capital Investment

Jacobs, Bas - CESifo - 2007

This paper extends the standard human capital model with real options. Real options influence investment behavior when risky investments in human capital are irreversible and individuals can affect the timing of the investment. Option values make individuals more reluctant to invest in human...

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Financing Bologna, the Internationally Mobile Students in European Higher Education

Gérard, Marcel - CESifo - 2008

Despite the importance of the Bologna process for the mobility of students, and the further mobility of graduates, as well as for peace, growth and welfare in that area, nothing has been decided so far for the financing of internationally mobile students, so that the burden of that financing,...

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Private Investment in Higher Education: Comparing Alternative Funding Schemes

Eckwert, Bernhard; Zilcha, Itzhak - CESifo - 2008

This paper uses an overlapping generations framework to analyze the implications of different financing regimes in the education sector for human capital formation and economic welfare. Agents privately invest in education after they have received a noisy information signal about their...

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The Evolution of Public Spending on Higher Education in a Democracy

Haupt, Alexander - CESifo - 2005

This paper analyses political forces that cause an initial expansion of public spending on higher education and an ensuing decline in subsidies. Growing public expenditures increase the future size of the higher income class and thus boost future demand for education. This demand shift implies...

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