Building on earlier work (Barr 2004a), this paper discusses the role of tuition fees in paying for teaching at universities in England, though much of the analysis applies also to the rest of the UK and to OECD countries. There is no discussion of financing research. The paper addresses three...

This paper theoretically and empirically analyzes the interaction of emigration of highly skilled labor, an economy`s income gap to potential host economies of expatriates, and optimal public infrastructure investment. In a model with endogenous education and R&D investment decisions we show...

Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence that larger, network-based research achieve high quality while leading to a number of capacity...

The governance and organisation of scientific research undertaken for publication have alteredsignificantly since the end of the Second World War in many industrialised economies. Thesechanges have had significant effects on authority relations governing research goals, approachesand the...

Recent changes in the funding and governance of research universities have attempted tomake them more strategically active in contributing to national goals. However, the ability ofuniversities to develop strategic capabilities as cohesive organisations is limited by the inherentuncertainty of...

Im Weltluftverkehr werden derzeit Verluste eingeflogen. Asiatische Luftverkehrsunternehmen konnten sich diesem Trend bislang entziehen. Vor dem Hintergrund hoher Wachstumsraten im asiatisch-pazifischen Raum über die letzten Jahre hinweg hat der zivile Luftverkehr in und nach dieser Region einen...

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