Comparing German and Italian public universities: Convergence or divergence in the higher education landscape?

Managerial and Decision Economics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 71-85

  Agasisti, Tommaso ^a   Pohl, Carsten ^b  

^a POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH IAB   (Germany)

Author keywords

Data envelopment analysis; Efficiency; Germany; Italy; Universities

Indexed keywords

EID: 84855598633     PISSN: 01436570     EISSN: 10991468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mde.1561     Document Type: Article

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