A high level of public services in housing, transport, education and health care is essential for liveability in urban centres, as shown in this report, with the help of European data for large cities. Inhabitants of larger cities, where the housing market is heavily commercialised in terms of...

This volume was prepared by Benedikt Siegler while working at the Center for the Economics of Education of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich (LMU) in November 2014. The thesis includes...

Seit 2007 finanzieren Bund und Länder im Hochschulpakt Studienanfänger, die gegenüber dem Basisjahr 2005 zusätzlich an die Hochschulen kommen, gemeinsam. In die Berechnungen werden alle Anfänger an den Privathochschulen einbezogen, Geld gibt es aber nur in wenigen Ausnahmefällen. Im...

Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler an Hochschulen verfügen über ein hohes Maß an innovativem Wissen, das die ideale Ausgangsbasis für eine Unternehmensgründung darstellen kann. Bisher fehlte jedoch eine umfassende empirische Analyse, inwieweit die bestehenden Rahmenbedingungen...

Vernetzt mit Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft, eingebettet in einen internationalen Aus-tausch und flexibel auf die unterschiedlichen Interessen von Studierenden mit und ohne Berufserfahrung reagierend - so sollten die Hochschulen aufgestellt sein, um den Megatrends Digitalisierung,...

This study was prepared by Annika B. Bergbauer while she was working at the Ifo Center for the Economics of Education. It was completed in March 2019 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich in July 2019. It consists of four self-contained...

Benjamin W. Arold prepared this study while he was working at the Center for Economics of Education at the ifo Institute. The study was completed in March 2022 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the LMU Munich. It consists of four distinct empirical essays that...

In Finland, universities have the explicit mandate to support the transformation of high-quality knowledge into profitable business, as well as to promote the creation of new businesses and workplaces within the boundaries of their so-called third mission. This report looks at how Finnish...