, 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 published. While the research focus and the applied methods differ … aim of this paper was to show differences and commonalities in efficiency between universities of applied sciences and …

recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain insights into these differences we split the efficiency … method to measure efficiency, we separate short-term (transient) and long-term (persistent) efficiency, while controlling for … unobserved institution specific heterogeneity. While the first term reflects the efficiency of the individual universities …

The purpose of the study is to assess efficiency in public tertiary education systems across EU countries plus Japan … autonomy are positively related to efficiency.  Moreover, the study provides evidence that public spending on tertiary … education is more effective in what concerns labour productivity growth and employability when it is coupled with efficiency. …

efficiency of higher education institutions. The overview opens with a look at the general development of the literature, before … the input and output variables, as well as the determinants of efficiency, are discussed in detail. Based on the insights … present study provides the first systematic review on the usage of the stochastic frontier analysis to measure efficiency in …

This study examines the impact of both university characteristics and regional endowment factors on the efficiency of … compelling evidence that factors beyond the control of the university management shape technical efficiency. In particular, we … analyze whether regional endowment can disadvantage universities and thus reduce their efficiency in producing their outputs …

This paper studies the effect of merger policies in Russia on university efficiency. We consider the non … efficiency scores of universities are estimated using a bootstrapped DEA non-parametric technique. The efficiency scores were … causal impact of mergers on efficiency levels. We find a positive, statistically significant effect of merger policy on …

The present paper evaluates the Romanian public universities from funding efficiency point of view over the past 7 … years, respectively 2012-2018. In order to evaluate the funding efficiency, we employed a nonparametric method, namely data … envelopment analysis (DEA) for three-cycle system (technical efficiency from constant return to scale, technical efficiency from …

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 …. As input, we used the amount of budget, and as output the number of highly-cited papers. We employed Data Efficiency …