Zunächst wird die empirische Bedeutung der Fachhochschulen und ihrer Vorgängerinstitutionen im deutschen Hochschulwesen seit Ende der 1950er Jahre nachgezeichnet. Gemessen an der Zahl der Studierenden hat sich ihr Anteil auf zuletzt ein reichliches Drittel deutlich erhöht. Anschließend wird...

This paper examines field experiment in which we encourage the use of computer-based tests (quizzes) through a set of non-financial incentives and test their effect on effort and performance of students. Our identification strategy exploits cross-cohort experimental variation in assessment rules...

The IS-ML model is a basic tool in teaching short-term macroeconomics. Teaching is essentially done through the use of graphs. However, the way these graphs are traditionally taught does not allow the learner to easily visualise changes in the curves. The IS-LM simulation program overcomes the...

By scaling pay by AACSB averages pay across business school disciplines can be analyzed. This study looks at a unique data set of business school professors at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. It finds large disparities in pay between the business disciplines that cannot be explained by...

We present empirical evidence on the temporal graduation trends in managerial, financial and tax accounting as well as audit and (corporate) finance in Germany. Overall, we observe a positive trend, which reverses as of lately. Accounting and finance lag behind the positive trend of business...

This study represents a first step in identifying the mathematics prerequisites for doctoral level studies in finance. We exploit the methodology of triangulation and complete the following three analyses. First, we completed an exhaustive search of the official web pages of all doctoral...

The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) has demonstrated commitment to expand higher education science and technology (S and T) programs to spur and support its growth and transformation agenda. Ethiopia has made a tremendous advance in access to higher education over the past decade. This rapid...

Objective - The concept of education is entirely outdated. Currently, many higher education institutions are adopting blended learning pedagogy to nurture 21st-century skills. The integration of ICT has become a recent global trend in education with universities and colleges using Learning...

During the past few decades, the configurations of new knowledge-intensive environments have required fertile settings for innovative and entrepreneurial activities. In these environments, Triple Helix has been operationalized in different ways, spaces, and contexts where those agents are...

We investigate economics PhDs minted at German, Austrian, and Swiss universities from 1991 to 2008. We find that cohort sizes increased overall, and the share of PhDs who publish in a peer-reviewed journal within six years after graduation increased from 18% in 1991 to 46% in 2008. Publishing...