The measurement of efficiency in higher education has gained a growing interest in recent
years, especially due to the expansion of the university system. This paper provides a review …

This paper provides a systematic review of the literature that employs stochastic frontier
analysis to measure the efficiency of higher education institutions. The overview opens with …

An ongoing debate in the literature on the efficiency of higher education institutions
concerns the indicator for research output for use in empirical analysis. While several …

The evaluation of university efficiency in Europe began timidly when the European Higher
Education Area (EHEA) was created. However, this issue is currently becoming increasingly …

Higher Education institutions (HEIs) and, in particular, universities play a well-established
role as key agents in creating and promoting regional economic growth and competitiveness …

Despite measures on the European level to increase the compatibility between the higher
education sectors, the recent literature exposes variations in their efficiencies. To gain …

In assessing the performance of universities, the most recent literature underlined that the
efficiency scores may suffer from the presence of incidental parameters or time-invariant …

In this study, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to evaluate the relative efficiency of a
sample of 54 Italian and 30 Polish state universities over the period 2001–11. The …

An understanding of the production and cost technology of higher education institutions is of
considerable policy interest as it motivates the structure of the sector—how large universities …

In this article, we test whether economic growth depends on human capital development
mainly operating through an upgrading of human capital stock in the area where the …