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Tommaso Agasisti Giuseppe Cappiello Giuseppe Catalano 《Tertiary Education and Management》2013,19(1):27-42
The aim of this article is to analyse the effect of introducing voucher schemes in higher education context. In the first part, the main economic characteristics of educational vouchers are discussed, in order to identify their expected effects on efficiency and equity in tertiary education. The second part contains the results of a case study that documents the experience gained at the University of Bologna between 2003/04 and 2005/06. The results suggest that the main effects of vouchers are on (1) the effectiveness of public support, and (2) course prices (fees). 相似文献
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Agasisti Tommaso Cappiello Giuseppe Catalano Giuseppe 《Tertiary Education and Management》2008,14(1):27-42
Tertiary Education and Management - The aim of this article is to analyse the effect of introducing voucher schemes in higher education context. In the first part, the main economic characteristics... 相似文献
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This paper analyses the relationship between the public funding systems of higher education in Italy and the Netherlands and their universities' performances. Empirically, an efficiency analysis on 13 Dutch and 58 Italian public universities is conducted. The findings show that the relative efficiency of Italian and Dutch universities is strongly influenced by the policy perspective adopted. If the goal is to realise the European goals and minimise resources employed for obtaining a high number of graduates, Dutch universities turn out to be more efficient. However, Italian universities are much more efficient if the priority is to minimise the costs for a given level of activity, such as number of students. 相似文献
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There are broad concerns in Italy about public sector efficiency. Within the public sector higher education (HE) has a major role, providing the economy with research outputs and graduates. Italian universities claim to have expanded teaching and research services to keep pace with the growth of the “knowledge society.” An important question is whether this expansion is benefiting the Italian HE sector. To address this issue, the cost structure of Italian university system is examined. A quadratic cost function is employed to test both the existence of efficiency linkages between teaching and research services and the presence of scale economies. These results are used to investigate the implications of a more specialized HE sector. 相似文献
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Tommaso Agasisti 《European Journal of Education》2011,46(4):549-565
This article evaluates the impact of competition on the performance of Italian schools. The study is based on policy experiments developed in 2000 by the Lombardy Regional government which introduced a voucher plan to encourage families to enrol their children in private schools. After this intervention, many other Regions launched similar policies. Despite the high political attention to this theme in Italy, there is almost no economic research on the possible role of such policies in fostering competition, and on the effects of competition on schools’ outputs. As there are not data collected by the Italian authorities for the purpose, the article uses the OECD-PISA 2006 dataset with some additional administrative information. The empirical analysis shows that while some indicators of school competition have been found significant in – positively – affecting schools’ performances (in terms of student achievement), there is not strong evidence that voucher policies implemented in the Lombardy Region did improve school competition. 相似文献
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Comparing efficiency in a cross-country perspective: the case of Italian and Spanish state universities 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The growing internationalization of European Higher Education requires more emphasis on cross-country 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 “country-specific” 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. 相似文献
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In this article, we analyse the effects of teaching reforms in Italy. These were introduced in 1999, and changed the entire
organization of university courses, where the Bachelor–Master (BA–MA) structure was adopted. The first step is to define the
production process of higher education (HE). This process consists of several inputs (professors, facilities and students)
which combine to produce outputs (graduates). We define efficiency in this context. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is used
for the empirical analysis. This method allows us to build a frontier of efficient units, comparing universities with each
other. The changes introduced by the reforms are modelled within this framework: the effects of teaching reforms are investigated
as determinants of efficiency improvements. Our results, also supported by a Malmquist index analysis, suggest that efficiency
of the HE sector as a whole improved in the period 1998/1999 to 2003/2004. Despite the fact that teaching reforms led to worse
performance in the first year, in the following years productivity improved more rapidly than before. Our analyses will require
further advancements, both for (1) analysing quality issues (improving the production process modelling) and for (2) testing
our findings on longer periods. In fact, even if the results clearly evidenced an improvement in performances, better analyses
on unobservable factors (e.g. quality) and on longer periods will give stability to our preliminary results.
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Tommaso Agasisti Antonio Dal Bianco Paolo Landoni Alessandro Sala Mario Salerno 《Higher Education Quarterly》2011,65(3):267-289
This paper investigates the efficiency of university departments in science, technology and medicine in an Italian Region (Lombardy). The aim of the paper is twofold: (i) to analyse the changes in productivity in recent years (from 2004 and 2007); and (ii) to detect factors that are potentially affecting efficiency. The research benefited from a new and unique dataset (called QuESTIO) developed by the Lombardy Regional Government. Using facilities and academic staff as inputs and research grants and publications as outputs, the research activity of academic departments was modelled. The methodological approach for computing efficiency scores is (DEA) Data Envelopment Analysis; Malmquist indexes have been used to measure changes in productivity, while Kruskal‐Wallis tests were employed to study the potential determinants of efficiency. Two main results were obtained. First, the academic departments improved their efficiency but, at the same time, the efficiency frontier worsened. Second, external and measurable factors (such as scientific sector, proportion of tenured staff, location, etc.) have a limited impact in explaining efficiency differentials. The policy implications of both results are discussed. 相似文献
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This paper presents an investigation of management accounting in four major Italian universities, which have been struggling
to build their strategy in a context of significant change. Following many OECD countries the Italian government has been
changing its higher education system by giving more autonomy to universities. These changes pose a number of challenges for
management and accounting systems in Italian Universities. Drawing on self-referential theory and its applications to accounting
research the paper analyses the construction of Strategic Management Accounting (SMA) in four Italian universities, which
are immersed in a similar context of change. The focus is specifically on two aspects of decisions: (1) resource allocation
and (2) new academic programme.
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| Tommaso AgasistiEmail: |