| Title: |
Measuring Productivity of Research in Economics. A Cross-Country Study Using DEA, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences |
| Authors: |
Martin G. Kocher; Mikuláš Luptácik; Matthias Sutter; Jel-code A |
| Contributors: |
The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives |
| Source: |
http://epub.wu.ac.at/1632/1/document.pdf. |
| Publication Year: |
2006 |
| Collection: |
CiteSeerX |
| Subject Terms: |
research in economics; productivity analysis; cross-country study; data envelopment analysis (DEA |
| Description: |
Using a sample of 21 OECD-countries we measure productivity in top-edge economic research by using data envelopment analysis (DEA). DEA is a tool for evaluating relative efficiency and is widely used when there are multiple inputs and outputs and one lacks a specific functional form of a production function. The publications in 10 economics journals with the highest average impact factor over the time period 1980-1998 are taken as research output. Inputs are measured by R&D expenditures, number of universities with economics departments and (as uncontrolled variable) total population. Under constant returns-to-scale the USA are in dominant position with remarkable distance to other countries. Under variable returns-to-scale the efficiency frontier is created by the USA with most productive scale size (MPSS), and by Ireland and New Zealand, which are technical efficient but scale inefficient. All countries – except the USA – display increasing returns-to-scale, which shows that they have a possibility to improve their efficiency by scaling up their research activities. |
| Document Type: |
text |
| File Description: |
application/pdf |
| Language: |
English |
| Relation: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.524.5092; http://epub.wu.ac.at/1632/1/document.pdf |
| Availability: |
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.524.5092; http://epub.wu.ac.at/1632/1/document.pdf |
| Rights: |
Metadata may be used without restrictions as long as the oai identifier remains attached to it. |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.E3B89FEA |
| Database: |
BASE |