This study examines the impact of both university characteristics and regional endowment factors on the efficiency of … compelling evidence that factors beyond the control of the university management shape technical efficiency. In particular, we … analyze whether regional endowment can disadvantage universities and thus reduce their efficiency in producing their outputs …

be distinguished from inter-institutional differences in efficiency. The approach used here therefore resembles in some … respects the non-parametric methods of efficiency evaluation. We report also on measures of average incremental cost of …

techniques to estimate an output distance function over the period 1997/97 to 2007/08 in order to investigate the efficiency of … higher education institutions (HEIs) and to examine the opportunities for substitution between inputs. Mean efficiency across … institution in the highest efficiency quartile is closest to the pattern of production of the average pre-1992 university. The …

This paper explores the issue of efficiency in English higher education using data envelopment analysis and stochastic … and research inputs and outputs) over a 13‐year period. The study compares the efficiency estimates derived from various … estimation methods, and uses the results to provide guidance to researchers, managers and policymakers on undertaking efficiency …