An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research … universities. Besides the amount of research grants and the absolute number of publications, the number of publications belonging …. We show that there is a high correlation of efficiency values between the estimations using these indicators; however …

While output and impact assessments were initially at the forefront of institutional research evaluations, efficiency … measurements have become popular in recent years. Research efficiency is measured by indicators that relate research output to … to the input. The present study is based on a comprehensive dataset with input- and output-data for 50 US universities …

efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014. The novelty of our approach lies in its extended coverage of …The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that … specifically, assignment to peer-groups builds on proximity in subject space to ensure valid comparisons between universities …

. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide … the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data … America or Europe. The results of the study show that institutions in the Pacific region have the highest average efficiency …

estimators. Overall we find an efficiency improvement, mainly driven by research, whereas teaching efficiency increases only in …

propose to also consider the budget available to universities. We transfer the idea of the excellence shift indicator [1] from … shows institutions' ability to produce graduates as measured against their basic academic teaching efficiency. The new … indicator avoids the well-known heterogeneity problem in efficiency measurements. Their politically determined focus on …

This paper reviews the most recent empirical literature that assesses efficiency in higher education. We analyze 76 … researchers interested in measuring efficiency, for policy makers and for other educational stakeholders. …

absence of efficiency enhancing market pressure. To what extent universities are able to eliminate inefficiency is a question … that has only partially been answered. This paper argues that heterogeneity among universities as well as persistent … inefficiency hinder the institutions to achieve full efficiency - at least in the short run. Two standard and one novel …

unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities … efficiency of universities in a fundamental way. Choosing Italy and Germany as two important illustrative examples we can take … from 2001 to 2011. We show that the Italian universities exhibit a higher overall efficiency value than their German …