Seminar: Evaluating the efficiency of Italian public universities
Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:01:00 GMT
‘Evaluating the efficiency of Italian public universities (2008-2011) in presence of unobserved heterogeneity’
Thursday 3rd December 6 pm Room BSG/22
Speaker: Dr. Tommaso Agasisti (Politecnico di Milano School of Management)
In assessing universities’ performances, the most recent literature underlined that the efficiency scores may suffer from the presence of incidental parameters or time-invariant, often unobservable, effects, that lead to biased efficiency estimates. To deal with this problem, we apply a procedure developed by Wang and Ho (2010), for estimating the efficiency in Italian higher education through a multi-output parametric distance function. We show that models which do not consider unobservable heterogeneity tend to estimate higher efficiency scores. We also study the determinants of efficiency; the findings provide a clue towards the expansion of pro-competitive policies in the Italian higher education sector, consistently with the interpretation that when market forces operate, there are benefits for university efficiency. When exploring differences in universities’ performances by geographical areas, we claim that maintaining State-level policies can be detrimental for overall efficiency, and instead special interventions for universities in the South should be designed.
Tommaso is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management, Economics & Industrial Engineering at Politecnico di Milano School of Management. His research activity is focused on Public Economics and Finance and Management. For details on Tommaso’s research interests and list of publications, please visit his profile
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