Die derzeitige Misere der deutschen Hochschulfinanzierung kann behoben werden. Dazu müssen nur die Fehlanreize des … the existing models to be replaced by premiums for efficiency. Federal states and universities which offer attractive … courses should be financially rewarded – by students whom educational vouchers and tuition fees have transformed into wealthy …

This paper investigates the decisions of universities to issue debt. We test whether the expected value and uncertainty … to both the expected value and the uncertainty of nonfinancial income. On average, increasing the expected value of …

This paper investigates the decisions of universities to issue debt. We test whether the expected value and uncertainty … to both the expected value and the uncertainty of nonfinancial income. On average, increasing the expected value of …

field of study and learning for specialization enrich knowledge in the subject matter. This is not, however, enough in …Provision of appropriate knowledge and skills in the field of a study and application of modern educational methods and … of the subject matter (content + skills) of the field of study is one thing and knowing about methods of teaching is …

Market concentration and weak competition do not just lead to lower efficiency, but also result in corporate profits … antitrust enforcement or regulation--our proposal could serve as a complimentary policy tool to existing approaches, and offers … a growing distributional problem not only due to familiar reasons in the literature, most notably shifts in market power …

to donate and give larger donations. Or donors may dislike premiums, preferring instead to maximize the value of their … premiums have little impact on the likelihood or level of giving. Donors do not respond negatively to premiums: rates of giving …One of the most important outstanding questions in fundraising is whether donor premiums, or gifts to prospective …

to donate and give larger donations. Or donors may dislike premiums, preferring instead to maximize the value of their … premiums have little impact on the likelihood or level of giving. Donors do not respond negatively to premiums: rates of giving …One of the most important outstanding questions in fundraising is whether donor premiums, or gifts to prospective …

mechanism. With or without securitisation, the risk of obtaining a low graduate premium will be reduced for students and be … a ‘race to the top’ and not a ‘race to the bottom’ because universities would have a direct economic interest in the … than non-graduates, the ‘graduate premium’ varies greatly by subject and by year of graduation. It also varies …

We address the determinants of resident and nonresident tuition and enrollment at public universities. A key … use out-of-state enrollments primarily to augment student quality, not to make up for losses in state appropriations …. Finally, we find no evidence that public universities increase their in-state or out-of-state tuition levels in response to …

universities not represented by a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) or House Appropriations Committee (HAC … equal to its marginal cost, although the large majority of universities with representation on the HAC and SAC do not lobby …, and thus do not take advantage of their representation in Congress. On average, 45 percent of universities are predicted …