Do Competitively Acquired Funds Induce Public Research Institutions to Behave Efficiently?

Thomas Bolli and Frank Somogyi ()

No 09-242, KOF Working papers from KOF Swiss Economic Institute, ETH Zurich

Abstract: This paper analyzes the effect of public and private third-party funds on the efficiency of departments of Swiss public research institutions. Estimating an output distance function assuming that labor is used to produce master students and scientific publications, we find no statistically significant effect of private or public third-party funding on research effciency. However, once we include technology transfer as an additional output, the coeffcient of private funding is statistically significant. We further find that this disciplining effect of private funding is qualitatively robust in a setting controlling for endogeneity.

Keywords: Efficiency; Research; University; Technology Transfer; Third-Party Funding; Public Finance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 30 pages
Date: 2009-11
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