An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...

The "Excellence Initiative" is a prestigious third-party funding program for German universities, organized as a research contest. We investigate whether universities in this program (or that prepared an application) had different trends in terms of productivity and technical efficiency than...

Due to the advancing economisation and the associated discussion on the distribution of public budgets and tax revenues, the efficiency of higher education institutions is increasingly coming into focus. Since the 2000s, more and more studies on the efficiency of German universities have been...

Effizienzbeurteilung von Hochschulen -- Internationaler Forschungsstand der Effizienzbeurteilung mittels Data Envelopment Analysis -- Konstruktion eines mathematischen Modells für die mehrstufige und mehrperiodige Effizienzbeurteilung von Hochschulen -- Implementierung des mathematischen...