 “Policy Scepticism†and the Impact of Scottish Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) on their Host Region: Accounting for Regional Budget Constraints under DevolutionKristinn Hermannsson, Katerina Lisenkova, Peter McGregor and John Swales () No 1015, Working Papers from University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics Abstract: A “policy scepticism†has emerged that challenges the results of conventional regional HEI impact analyses. Its denial of the importance of the expenditure impacts of HEIs appears to be based on a belief in either a binding regional resource constraint or a regional public sector budget constraint. In this paper we provide a systematic critique of this policy scepticism. However, while rejecting the extreme form of policy scepticism, we argue that it is crucial to recognise the importance of the public-sector expenditure constraints that are binding under devolution. We show how conventional impact analyses can be augmented to accommodate regional public sector budget constraints. While our results suggest that conventional impact studies overestimate the expenditure impacts of HEIs, they also demonstrate that the policy scepticism that treats these expenditure effects as irrelevant neglects some key aspects of HEIs, in particular their export intensity. Keywords: Higher Education Institutions; Input-Output; Scotland; Impact study; Multipliers; Devolution. (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:str:wpaper:1015 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from University of Strathclyde Business School, Department of Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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