Budget Uncertainty and Faculty Contracts: A Dynamic Framework for Comparative Analysis

Irina Khovanskaya, Konstantin Sonin and Maria Yudkevich

No w0112, Working Papers from Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR)

Abstract: We study hiring decisions made by competing universities in a dynamic framework, focusing on the structure of university finance. Universities with annual state-approved financing underinvest in high-quality faculty, while universities that receive a significant part of their annual income from returns on endowments hire fewer but better faculty and provide long-term contracts. If university financing is linked to the number of students, there is additional pressure to hire low-quality short-term staff. An increase in the university’s budget might force the university to switch its priorities from ‘research’ to ‘teaching’ in equilibrium. We employ our model to discuss the necessity for state-financed endowments, and investigate the political economics of competition between universities, path-dependence in the development of the university system, and higher-education reform in emerging market economies.

Pages: 28 pages
Date: 2007-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cdm, nep-cis, nep-cul, nep-pol, nep-soc and nep-tra
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.cefir.ru/papers/WP112.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://www.cefir.ru/papers/WP112.pdf [302 Moved Temporarily]--> https://www.nes.ru/files/Preprints-resh/WP112.pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: Budget Uncertainty and Faculty Contracts: A Dynamic Framework for Comparative Analysis (2008)
Working Paper: Budget Uncertainty and Faculty Contracts: A Dynamic Framework for Comparative Analysis (2008)
Working Paper: Budget Uncertainty and Faculty Contracts: A Dynamic Framework for Comparative Analysis (2007)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cfr:cefirw:w0112

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Center for Economic and Financial Research (CEFIR) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Julia Babich ().