Cross-Country Efficiency Comparison between Italian and Spanish Public Universities in the period 2000-2005
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UAM. Departamento de Economía y Hacienda PúblicaDate
2008Serie/Num.
Documento de trabajo FUNCAS 369/2008Subjects
Efficiency analyses; Universities; Data Envelopment Analysis; Malmquist indexes; Decentralization; Economía; EducaciónAbstract
The growing internationalization of European Higher Education requires more emphasis on crosscountry
comparisons. In this paper, an efficiency analysis of Italian and Spanish universities is conducted;
as well as from a comparative perspective. The efficiency scores are obtained using Data Envelopment
Analysis. The results demonstrate a good average efficiency in both countries relative to each “countryspecific”
frontier; but when compared together, Italian universities seem relatively more efficient.
Malmquist indexes show, in both cases, efficiency improvements in the period considered. In the Italian
case, this improvement is due to major “technological changes”; that is, the introduction of some
structural reforms in the sector (e.g. Bachelor/Master curricula). In the Spanish case, there is an
improvement in “pure” efficiency, which is due to new funding models. Further stages of the study
underline the role of “regional effects”, probably due to different socio-economic conditions in Italy, and
to the decentralization process in Spain.
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Google Scholar:Agasisti, Tommaso
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Pérez Esparrells, Carmen
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