Over the last decade, many countries have experienced dramatic increases in university enrolment, which, when not matched by compensating increases in other inputs, have resulted in larger class sizes. Using administrative records from a leading UK university, we present evidence on the effects...

Nach der schrittweisen Umstellung der alten Hochschulabschlüsse auf ein Bachelor-/Master-System stellt sich die Frage, wie dies von Studierenden und Unternehmen angenommen und bewertet wird. Die Autoren zeigen für Universitäten und Fachhochschulen, wie sich die Einführung des Bachelors unter...

An economy's production set is the collection of all net output vectors that the economy is capable of producing with a given technology and fixed quantities of primary factors of production. The boundary of this set is called the production possibility frontier or PPF. We show that, if the...

A country's production possibility frontier or PPF is defined as the boundary of its economy's production set in the net output space for a given technology and fixed quantities of primary factors of production. In general equilibrium theory, exogenous changes in technology or primary-factor...