Four Essays on University Economics - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
Four Essays on University Economics - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
Four Essays on University Economics - KOPS - Universität Konstanz
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C<strong>on</strong>tents<br />
Summary 1<br />
1 How Did Ec<strong>on</strong>omic Research in Switzerland Develop since the Beginning of the<br />
90s? 4<br />
1.1 Introducti<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5<br />
1.2 An Incentive Compatible Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7<br />
1.3 Baseline Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10<br />
1.4 Journal Proliferati<strong>on</strong> and the Development of Research quality . . . . . . . 12<br />
1.4.1 Journal Proliferati<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12<br />
1.4.2 Quality and Quantity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13<br />
1.5 C<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15<br />
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17<br />
2 Research Productivity in Business Ec<strong>on</strong>omics: An Investigati<strong>on</strong> of Austrian,<br />
German and Swiss Universities 19<br />
2.1 Introducti<strong>on</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20<br />
2.2 Data and Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21<br />
2.3 Department Rankings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24<br />
2.4 Instituti<strong>on</strong>al Effects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28<br />
2.5 Determinants of Individual Research Productivity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32<br />
2.6 Outlook . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36<br />
2.7 Appendix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38<br />
Bibliography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45<br />
3 How Can Scholarship Instituti<strong>on</strong>s Foster the Return of Foreign Students? 48<br />
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