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Economic globalisation and Africa's quest for greener and more inclusive growth : the missing link
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Freytag, Andreas; Asongu, Simplice - 2023
inclusive green growth (IGG) relationship in Africa. Based on macro data for 22 African countries and the Driscoll …-Kraay standard errors with fixed effects instrumental variable regression, the following findings are established. First, Africa … threshold analysis suggests that by improving Africa's mostly unfree economic architecture to 60% (moderately free) or 80% (free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014292764
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Expansion of higher education and time-consistent taxation
Poutvaara, Panu (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003599393
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Push or pull? : an empirical analysis of the demand for individual project grants from the Swiss National Science Foundation
Wolter, Stefan C. (contributor); Hübschi, Rémy (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003496744
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Evaluation of researchers : a life cycle analysis of German academic economists
Rauber, Michael (contributor);  … - 2006
In this paper we ague that any meaningful bibliometric evaluation of researchers needs to take into account that research productivity follows distinct life cycles. Using an encompassing data set portraying the research behavior of German academic economists, we first show that research...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301129
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Competition between state universities
Luporini, Lisa; Grazzini, Annalisa; Petretto, Alessandro - 2011
We analyse how state university competition to collect resources may affect both research and the quality of teaching. By considering a set-up where two state universities behave strategically, we model their interaction with potential students as a sequential noncooperative game. We show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011313
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Competition for the international pool of talent : education policy and student mobility
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim; Lange, Thomas - 2011
This paper presents a model of two countries competing for a pool of students from the rest of the world (ROW). In equilibrium, one country offers high educational quality for high tuition fees, while the other country provides a low quality and charges low fees. The quality in the high quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011762
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Student and worker mobility under university and government competition
Delpierre, Matthieu; Verheyden, Bertrand - 2011
We provide a normative analysis of endogenous student and worker mobility in the presence of diverging interests between universities and governments. Student mobility generates a university competition effect which induces them to overinvest in education, whereas worker mobility generates a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009011793
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A signaling model of university selection
Anić, Ivan; Božin, Vladimir; Uroševic, Branko - 2016
We propose a signaling model of student enrollment dynamics based on probabilities of completion of studies, under different rationality assumptions. There are two types of students and two schools. School of graduation serves as a signal of student productivity to prospective employers. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421585
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Why academic quality in higher education declines
Meier, Volker; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2015
We investigate the choice of quality, or academic content, in higher education in a two-sector model. Individuals are differentiated according to their cost of acquiring human capital. A higher academic quality increases productivity upon training, but is also associated with higher cost of...
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On the political economy of university admission standards
De Donder, Philippe; Martinez-Mora, Francisco - 2015
We study the political determination of the proportion of students attending university when access to higher education is rationed by admission tests. Parents differ in income and in the ability of their unique child. They vote over the minimum ability level required to attend public...
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