Does university performance have an economic payoff for home regions? Evidence for the Spanish provinces

Crespo, Joan; Peiró‐Palomino, Jesús; Tortosa‐Ausina, Emili

doi:10.1080/13662716.2021.1990019

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“…The recent, although still limited, literature also considers the universities' efficiency, rather than their performance or their mere presence on the territory, arguing that it is not only output that matters but the ability to make the most of the available resources. Indeed, using several efficiency indicators and taking into account the whole set of universities' missions, Barra and Zotti (2017) and Agasisti, Barra, and Zotti (2019) within the Italian context, Agasisti et al (2020) for Russia and Crespo, Peiró-Palomino, and Tortosa-Ausina (2020) for Spain, show that the efficiency of universities positively affect several measures of local economic outputs.…”

Section: Universities Institutions and Local Productivitymentioning

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Universities, Local Economic Productivity and Quality of Institutions: Evidence From Italy

Amendola

Barra

Zotti

2022

International Regional Science Review

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An important issue in economic geography is the link between higher education institutions and economic performance at local level. This paper exploits some aspects of the university funding system in Italy to estimate the effects of hosting higher education institutions on local productivity and furthermore tests whether local institutions have a moderating role in this relationship. The findings firstly confirm that university performance positively affects local economies. Secondly, we argue that an important channel linking universities to greater economic activity is the administrative capacity of local governments to create strong social and economic structures.

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Universities, Local Economic Productivity and Quality of Institutions: Evidence From Italy

Amendola

Barra

Zotti

2022

International Regional Science Review

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Unlocking university efficiency: a Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis

García‐Tórtola,

Conesa,

Crespo

et al. 2024

Int Trans Operational Res

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In this paper, we analyze the performance of the Spanish public university system over the 2010–2019 period, which was particularly turbulent due to the tight budget constraints imposed on universities. To disentangle the main sources of performance change, we adopt a dynamic approach by decomposing it into efficiency change (catching up) and technical change (shifts in the frontier). In contrast to many studies on higher education institutions (HEIs), we opt for stochastic frontier analysis, employing the ray production function proposed by Löthgren (1997) to account for the multiple‐output nature of HEIs. Additionally, to offer a more detailed examination of uncertainty quantification, we conduct inference within the Bayesian paradigm. Broadly, results point to an overall positive performance change over the entire period, particularly for technical change during 2010–2014. However, there were notable discrepancies across universities, which could be unlocked with certain precision via the posterior distributions of performance and its components.

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Does university performance have an economic payoff for home regions? Evidence for the Spanish provinces

Cited by 2 publications

References 95 publications

Universities, Local Economic Productivity and Quality of Institutions: Evidence From Italy

Universities, Local Economic Productivity and Quality of Institutions: Evidence From Italy

Unlocking university efficiency: a Bayesian stochastic frontier analysis

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