Ranking methods are fundamental tools in many areas. Popular methods aggregate the statements of `experts' in different ways. As such, there are various reasonable ranking methods, each one of them more or less adapted to the environment under consideration.This paper introduces a new method,...

Due to computing and communication facilities, formal procedures, often referred to as "algorithms," are now extensively used in public, economic, and social areas. These procedures, currently at the forefront of criticisms, share some features with mechanisms as defined by economists, following...

In the last years, there has been a shift toward more private financing of higher education in many countries. At the same time, student mobility has substantially increased. This paper analyzes in a two-region model the impact of student mobility on region-specific higher education quality with...