The aim of this paper is to evaluate which university’s characteristics have the greatest impact on the competitiveness of universities in their ability to attract better students in Russia. We examined the impact of three groups of factors,related to teaching, research and entrepreneurial...

Bildung und Wissenschaft sind auch ein Wirtschaftsfaktor. Die regionalwirtschaftliche Bedeutung dieses Wirtschaftsfaktors läßt sich anhand der Nachfrage-, Produktivitäts- und Standorteffekte der Sach- und Personalausgaben für die Hochschulbildungs- und Wissenschaftseinrichtungen empirisch...

This study deals with youth unemployment trends in Europe since the mid of the 80ths in general and regards individual risk factors for Germany and the United Kingdom in particular in the mid of the 90ths. The study for the two selected countries shows that the individual risk of (long-term)...

We consider a model of an information network where nodes can fail and transmission of information is costly. The formation of paths in such networks is modeled as the Nash equilibrium of an N player routing game. The task of obtaining this equilibrium is shown to be NP-Hard. We derive...