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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853185
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New region, new chances : does moving regionally for university shape later job mobility?
Ehrenfried, Felix; Fackler, Thomas; Lindlacher, Valentin - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013364914
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Does distance matter? : tuition fees and enrollment of first-year students at German public universities
Bruckmeier, Kerstin; Fischer, Georg-Benedikt; Wigger, … - 2013
the effects of tuition fees on university enrollment of first-year students at German public universities. Our study … gender differences in enrollment behavior. Enrollment numbers of female students at universities that are located far away … of male students. …
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How does reducing the intensity of tracking affect student achievement? : evidence from German state reforms
Piopiunik, Marc - 2021
significantly improves students’ reading achievement. Lower-performing student groups – boys, students born abroad, and students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599122
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Competition between state universities
Luporini, Lisa; Grazzini, Annalisa; Petretto, Alessandro - 2011
students as a sequential noncooperative game. We show that different types of equilibrium may arise, depending on the mix of … research and teaching supplied by each university, and the mix of low- and high-ability students attending each university. The … most efficient equilibrium results in the creation of an élite institution attended only by high-ability students who enjoy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011313
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Efficiency of European universities : a comparison of peers
Herberholz, Lars; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2020
The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154760
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Efficiency of universities and research-focused institutions worldwide : an empirical DEA investigation ased on institutional publication numbers and estimated academic staff numbe...
Bornmann, Lutz; Gralka, Sabine Marlene; Moya Anegón, … - 2020
One of the core indicators in the field of scientometrics is the number of papers published by a unit within a given period. However, such indicators can only be assessed properly by considering the unit’s available resources. When evaluating the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the...
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Learning and the value of relationships in international trade
Monarch, Ryan; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim - 2016
How valuable are long-term supplier relationships? To address this question, this paper explores relationships between U.S. importers and their suppliers abroad. We first establish several facts: almost half of U.S. imports are in relationships three years or older, relationship survival and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417707
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Behavioral New Keynesian models : learning vs. cognitive discounting
Meggiorini, Greta; Milani, Fabio - 2021
This paper estimates a New Keynesian model with new and old behavioral elements. Agents in the model exhibit cognitive discounting, or myopia: they discount variables far into the future at higher rates than typically implied in the benchmark model. We investigate the model under different...
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The dynamics of outsourcing : from labor cost-saving to preference-based outsourcing
Cheng, Wan-jung; Riezman, Raymond Glenn; Wang, Ping - 2020
Ronald W. Jones (2000) celebrated book has inspired a generation of work that has been devoted to understanding the causes and consequences of outsourcing. While much of this work has focused on the outsourcing versus domestic production decision of the firm with labor cost-saving as the key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211546