| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP6508 |
| DP6508 Reducing Product Diversity in Higher Education | |
| Frank Verboven; Stijn Kelchtermans | |
| 发表日期 | 2007-10-05 |
| 出版年 | 2007 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Public systems of higher education have recently attempted to cut costs by providing financial incentives to institutions who reduce the diversity of their programs. We study the profit and welfare effects of reducing product diversity in higher education, against the background of a funding system reform in Flanders (Belgium). We find that dropping duplicated programs at individual institutions tends to be socially undesirable, due to the limited fixed cost and variable cost savings and the students' low willingness to travel to other institutions. Furthermore, we find that the financial incentives offered to drop programs may be very ineffective, leading to both undesirable reform and undesirable status quo. These findings emphasize the complexities in regulating product diversity in higher education, and serve as a word of caution towards the various decentralized financial incentive schemes that have recently been introduced. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization |
| 关键词 | Higher education Product diversity |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp6508 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535346 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Frank Verboven,Stijn Kelchtermans. DP6508 Reducing Product Diversity in Higher Education. 2007. |
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