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The Global University Rankings: the Problem of Manipulation

Evgeny Balatsky and N. Ekimova
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N. Ekimova: The State University of Management, Moscow, Russia

Journal of the New Economic Association, 2012, vol. 13, issue 1, 126-146

Abstract: The article reveals the role of the Goodhart's law in building the global university rankings. A review of the methods of manipulation and the errors emerging as a result of this was made; the shortcomings of different types of the rankings and mechanisms that generate the Goodhart's law were showed; the most strongly exposed to the distortion of the Goodhart's law rankings were detected. A strategy of the promotion of Russian universities in the top lists of the global university rankings was suggested.

Keywords: rankings of Universities; ranking criteria; education; economic policy; manipulation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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