Competing in the Higher Education Market: Empirical Evidence for Economies of Scale and Scope in German Higher Education Institutions
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- Maria Olivares & Heike Wetzel, 2011. "Competing in the Higher Education Market: Empirical Evidence for Economies of Scale and Scope in German Higher Education Institutions," Economics of Education Working Paper Series 0070, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW).
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Higher Education Production; Economies of Scale and Scope; Technical Efficiency; Stochastic Frontier Analysis; Input Distance Function;JEL classification:
- L25 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior - - - Firm Performance
- I23 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Higher Education; Research Institutions
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2012-01-03 (All new papers)
- NEP-EDU-2012-01-03 (Education)
- NEP-EFF-2012-01-03 (Efficiency & Productivity)
- NEP-EUR-2012-01-03 (Microeconomic European Issues)
- NEP-IND-2012-01-03 (Industrial Organization)
- NEP-LAB-2012-01-03 (Labour Economics)
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