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Does the Excellence Initiative Increase Financial Inequality Between Universities?

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  • Lukas Mergele
  • Felix Winkelmayer

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In 2005, Germany’s federal and state governments jointly launched the Excellence Initiative to promote top-level research and international competitiveness. An analysis of the third-party funding success of 78 universities that emerged from the Excellence Competition with varying degrees of success over a 15-year period shows that the Excellence Initiative has exacerbated existing disparities in third-party funding between universities. However, this appears to have been a one-off effect that did not set in motion a self-reinforcing divergence process.

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  • Lukas Mergele & Felix Winkelmayer, 2021. "Does the Excellence Initiative Increase Financial Inequality Between Universities?," ifo Schnelldienst, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, vol. 74(06), pages 50-52, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ces:ifosdt:v:74:y:2021:i:06:p:50-52
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