Study level

  • PhD

Faculty/School

Faculty of Business and Law

School of Economics and Finance

Topic status

We're looking for students to study this topic.

Research centre

Supervisors

Associate Professor Boon Lee
Position
Associate Professor
Division / Faculty
Faculty of Business & Law

Overview

The research objective focuses on comparing the top 100 universities (according to the Times Higher Education) from 2010 to 2020. The objective of the project is fourfold. First, to derive appropriate research outputs per university. Second, employ a Network DEA approach to identify (in)efficiencies within the network. Third, to measure productivity change of universities using the Fare-Primont index. Fourth, to determine sources of (in)efficiencies and productivity.

This project is both theoretical and applied. The applicant should possess strong mathematical and computational skills, and be familiar with the use of statistical packages such as SPSS, SAS, STATA, GAMS, but most importantly R.

Contact

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