between universities in the Italian university system, typically non-competitive. We will also investigate the level of …

the efficiency of institutions worldwide, the problem concerning the availability of internationally standardized data …. We calculate efficiency scores for more than 4,800 universities and other research-focused institutions worldwide …. “Harvard University” is the best performing institution (in all years) followed by many other institutions from Northern …

becomes super-efficient. We produced university rankings based on adjusted efficiency scores (subsequent to regression …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 …

In this paper, we compare the efficiency of the Italian and German university system in the process of translating … public funding into the multiple outputs of a university, i.e. graduating students, publishing research, and patenting … over the period 2006-2011, we find that Italian universities are significantly better in terms of cost efficiency than …