Geraint Johnes

TL;DR: In this paper, the research output of economics departments in U.K. universities is assessed using data envelopment analysis and the results obtained are sensitive to the inclusion or absence of external funding as an input into the research process.

TL;DR: In this article, data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to investigate the technical efficiency of U.K. university departments of economics as producers of research and the role of external funding of research as an input into the research process.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the greater the degree of competition between schools the more efficient they are, and the strength of this effect has also increased over time which is consistent with the evolution of the quasi-market in secondary education.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors derived and maximised the likelihood function associated with this problem, and hence construct measures of economies of scale and scope which obtain in British higher education, using the half-normal residuals generated by the stochastic frontier estimation to construct the measures of technical efficiency for each university in their sample.

TL;DR: The paper finds that further student number increases of the order of 20–27% are feasible through exploiting operating and scale efficiency gains and also adjusting student mix and uses a Malmquist index approach to assess productivity change in the UK higher education.