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...

Zutreffende Prognosen über die Entwicklung von Personen zu machen, gehörte schon immer zu den größten Herausforderungen in der Diagnostik. Unternehmen sind in hohem Maße an solchen Voraussagen interessiert, denn in Zeiten globalen Wettbewerbs gewinnen die "Human Resources" rasant an...

It has become part of the conventional wisdom in the economics of education that subsidies to higher education have a regressive distributional effect. Given that relatively more children from wealthier families enroll in higher education, many economist assume that these subsidies to higher...

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

German universities are regarded as being under-financed, inefficient, and performing below average if compared to universities in other European countries and the US. Starting in the 1990s, several German federal states implemented reforms to improve this situation. An important part of these...

This paper estimates the effect of heterogeneous university funding stemming from the German Excellence Initiative on a regional firm’s probability to innovate by using a multi-valued two-way fixed effects difference-in-differences model. The estimations show that funding an additional...