The student-faculty ratio is of great significance to policy makers and media as a popular measure of education and teaching quality. Due to its simplicity and the availability of data, it is often used in higher education policy for allocating resources and for ranking universities. This is...

Accreditation and quality assurance at universities have gained new meaning in Switzerland – as in other European nations – through the concurrent increase in autonomy, new educational institutions offering international courses and the implementation of the Bologna Declaration. With respect...

In the past decade, based on a change in paradigms in university policy, performance funding on a cantonal and central state level has been introduced in Switzerland: the universities have been granted higher autonomy, combined with global budgets and contract management by the responsible...

En Suisse, comme dans d’autres pays européens, les notions d’accréditation et d’assurance qualité à l’université ont pris une nouvelle dimension sous les effets conjugués de l’autonomie grandissante des universités, de l’apparition de nouveaux types d’établissement...

Ces dix dernières années, modifiant son approche des politiques universitaires, la Suisse a adopté au niveau cantonal et fédéral un mode de financement fondé sur les résultats : les universités se sont vu accorder une plus grande autonomie par leurs autorités de tutelle (autorités...

This study investigates the efficacy of public R&D support. Compared to most existing studies, we do not stop at substitution effects or general innovation outcome measures, but we are interested in knowing where the policy effect is highest: on innovation close to the market (i.e. incremental...

Based on a disaggregate cross-country analysis, we investigate the performance of 10 public Swiss universities and 77 public German universities from 2001-2007. During this period the universities in both countries have faced two major reforms aimed at improving efficiency and productivity in...

Die Bildungspolitik eines Landes folgt in der Regel keinem wohldefinierten Optimierungsprozeß. Wertvorstellungen, Vorurteile und Ideologien der jeweiligen Entscheidungsträger sowie historische Entwicklungen und institutionelle Vorgaben bedingen die bildungspolitischen Entschlüsse. Angesichts...

In contrast to sociology, economics, and above all, business economics has not yet discovered disaster management as a research topic even though this subject affects many areas of economics due to its interdisciplinary character. The enormous economic losses suffered by private parties,...

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