Higher education multi-product cost functions are estimated for the public and private sectors disaggregated by research, comprehensive, baccalaureate, and associate level institutions. The output mix incorporates professional school teaching output, in addition to undergraduate and graduate...

This paper presents a simplified methodology for determining the economically optimal size of a solar hot-water system installed in a commercial building. For relatively broad climatological areas, the methodology can be used to construct universal economic optimization paths. These paths enable...

Stochastic frontier cost and inefficiency estimates are provided for research and doctoral granting universities in the years, 2005-2009, is used to estimate underlying cost structures. Inefficiency is modeled as depending on institutionally specific environmental factors. Results indicate that...

In recent years we have witnessed governmental attempts to accelerate the stock demand for energy-saving durables with financial incentives implemented through the tax mechanism. At the federal level, income tax credits for the purchase of energy-saving durable stocks were introduced through the...

The focus of this paper is on the efficiency of producing and managing religion based knowledge in postsecondary institutions. Panel data is used to estimate a stochastic cost frontier and associated inefficiencies for a panel of 222 U.S. bible colleges, theological seminaries, and other faith...

This article employs panel data on more than 1000 US public colleges and universities to investigate the effect of private giving on state government funding. Government free riding is at question and is found to be active in that private donations partially displace state government funding at...

This paper compares operating cost efficiencies of public historically black colleges and universities to those of predominately white institutions in the USA. Panel data spans four academic years, 2005 to 2006 through 2008 to 2009. Cost frontiers are estimated with an inefficiency component...

Managing publicly owned universities has necessitated year after year adjustments to shifts in the dependency on alternative financing sources. The global financial crisis bought new managerial operating challenges with an accelerated decline in government funding and a quick evaporation of...