An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

Due to tight public budget constraints, the efficiency of publicly financed universities in Germany is receiving … increasing attention in the academic as well as in the public discourse. Against this back ground we analyze the efficiency of 72 … efficiency of higher education. Our main finding is that East German universities have performed better in total factor …

Due to tight public budget constraints, the efficiency of publicly financed universities in Germany is receiving … increasing attention in the academic as well as in the public discourse. Against this background we analyze the efficiency of 72 … efficiency of higher education. Our main finding is that East German universities have performed better in total factor …

terms of productivity and technical efficiency than universities that did not apply for the program, albeit these dimensions … applicants suffered a drop in efficiency at the time of applying. All this does not rule out, however, that research …