University efficiency and public funding for higher education in Bulgaria

Post-Communist Economies

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 517-534

  Tochkov, Kiril ^a   Nenovsky, Nikolay ^b,c   Tochkov, Karin ^d  

^a TEXAS CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ D'ORLÉANS   (France)

^d TEXAS AANDM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHER EDUCATION; SUBSIDY SYSTEM; TEACHING; TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY; UNIVERSITY SECTOR;

BULGARIA;

EID: 84868242602     PISSN: 14631377     EISSN: 14653958     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14631377.2012.729306     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Abbott, M. and Doucouliagos, C. 2003. The efficiency of Australian universities: a data envelopment analysis. Economics of education review, 22: 89-97.
2. Agasisti, T. and Johnes, J. 2010. Heterogeneity and the evaluation of efficiency: the case of Italian universities. Applied economics, 42: 1365-1375.
3. Agasisti, T. and Salerno, C. 2007. Assessing the cost efficiency of Italian universities. Education economics, 15: 455-471.
4. Banker, R., Charnes, A. and Cooper, W. 1984. Some models for estimating technical and scale inefficiencies in DEA. Management science, 32: 1613-1627.
5. Belfield, C. and Fielding, A. 2001. Measuring the relationship between resources and outcomes in higher education in the UK. Economics of education review, 20: 589-602.
6. Bratti, M. 2004. Higher graduation outcomes, graduate employability, and university performance indicators. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, 167: 475-496.
7. Caballero, R. 2004. Budgetary allocations and efficiency in the human resources policy of a university following multiple criteria. Economics of education review, 23: 67-74.
8. Colbert, A., Levary, R. and Shaner, M. 2000. Determining the relative efficiency of MBA programmes using DEA. European journal of operational research, 125: 656-669.
9. Fandel, G. 2007. On the performance of universities in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany: government's redistribution of funds judged using DEA efficiency measures. European journal of operational research, 176: 521-533.
10. Farrell, M. 1957. The measurement of productive efficiency. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, A 120: 253-290.
11. Flegg, A. 2004. Measuring the efficiency of British universities: a multi-period data envelopment analysis. Education economics, 12: 231-249.
12. Georgieva, P., Pilev, D. and Todorova, L., 2002. Higher education in Bulgaria, UNESCO- CEPES Monographs on Higher Education
13. Glass, J. 2006. Implications of variant efficiency measures for policy evaluations in UK higher education. Socio-economic planning sciences, 40: 119-142.
14. Greene, W. 1999. "Frontier production function". In Handbook of applied econometrics, Edited by: Pesaran, M. and Schmidt, P. vol. 2: microeconomics, 81-166. Oxford: Blackwell.
15. Izadi, H. 2002. Stochastic frontier estimation of a CES cost function: the case of higher education in Britain. Economics of education review, 21: 63-71.
16. Johnes, G. and Johnes, J. 1993. Measuring the research performance of UK economics departments: an application of data envelopment analysis. Oxford economic papers, 45: 332-347.
17. Johnes, J. 2006. Data envelopment analysis and its application to the measurement of efficiency in higher education. Economics of education review, 25: 273-288.
18. Kao, C. and Hung, H. 2008. Efficiency analysis of university departments: an empirical study. Omega, 36: 653-664.
19. Kempkes, G. and Pohl, C. 2010. The efficiency of German universities: some evidence from parametric and non-parametric methods. Applied economics, 42: 2063-2079.
20. Kokkelenberg, E. 2008. The efficiency of private universities as measured by graduation rates. Cornell Higher Education Research Institute Working Paper, 113
21. McMillan, M. and Chan, W. 2006. University efficiency: a comparison and consolidation of results from stochastic and non-stochastic methods. Education economics, 14: 1-30.
22. Middlehurst, R. and Woodfield, S., 2004. The role of transnational, private and for-profit provision in meeting global demand for tertiary education: the case of Bulgaria, UNESCO and the Commonwealth of Learning
23. Ng, Y. and Li, S. 2009. Efficiency and productivity growth in Chinese universities during the post-reform period. China economic review, 20: 183-192.
24. Simar, L. and Wilson, P. 1998. Sensitivity analysis of efficiency scores: how to bootstrap in nonparametric frontier models. Management science, 44: 49-61.
25. Smith, J., McKnight, A. and Naylor, R. 2000. Graduate employability: policy and performance in higher education in the UK. Economic journal, 110: 382-411.
26. Tajnikar, M. and Debevec, J. 2008. Funding system of full-time higher education and technical efficiency: case of the University of Ljubljana. Education economics, 16: 289-303.
27. Tauer, L., Fried, H. and Fry, W. 2007. Measuring efficiencies of academic departments within a college. Education economics, 15: 473-489.
28. Worthington, A. 2001. An empirical survey of frontier efficiency measurement techniques in education. Education economics, 9: 245-268.
29. Worthington, A. and Lee, B. 2003. Efficiency, technology and productivity change in Australian universities, 1998-2003. Economics of education review, 27: 285-298.