absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel … efficiency evaluation changes when both aspects are taken into account. It is the first time that the idea of persistent …

efficiency of higher education institutions. The overview opens with a look at the general development of the literature, before … the input and output variables, as well as the determinants of efficiency, are discussed in detail. Based on the insights … present study provides the first systematic review on the usage of the stochastic frontier analysis to measure efficiency in …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …