It has become well documented that the performance gap between European and US universities is at least partly due to lower spending on higher education in Europe. Rather than raising the public budget or promoting private contributions, many governments have attempted to make public spending...

Mobile students and graduates react to the institutional framework of higher education and on their turn induce changes in governmental policies. In this article, we are interested in how governmental decisions about the financial regime and the quality level of higher education interact with...

Inhalt: I. Wirkungen aus der Sicht der Hochschulforschung (Jonbloed, Ben: Performance-oriented budgeting in Europe - Trends, effects and consequences. - Jaeger, Michael: Wie wirksam sind leistungsorientierte Budgetierungsverfahren in deutschen Hochschulen?). - II. Praxisreflexionen aus Sicht des...