An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research … universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014. The novelty of our approach lies in its extended coverage of …The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that … specifically, assignment to peer-groups builds on proximity in subject space to ensure valid comparisons between universities …

This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go …-m - which addresses some of the drawbacks of the standard efficiency frontier analysis and allows for so-called super … "usual suspects". Furthermore, standard output rankings are not well correlated with our estimated efficiency rankings, which …

countries and calculate input efficiency scores for each country. We estimate a wide range of specifications in order to analyse … different aspects of efficiency. In purely quantitative models (where inputs and outputs are expenditure and number of students …

. By considering a set-up where two state universities behave strategically, we model their interaction with potential …

capacities massively. This happened even though colleges have been at a competitive disadvantage with universities which are …

transformation predicted is expected to be fundamental. -- academia ; universities ; research ; rankings ; publications ; fraud …