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Three essays on the economics of science and higher education

This PhD thesis takes a ’micro’ perspective on the production of higher education and research. More precisely, I use tools of industrial organization to study two individual institutions involved in their production process. The second chapter studies universities, the main producers of higher education and research, and the third and fourth chapters analyze scientific journals, which are central in the production and the dissemination of science. Besides being crucial nodes in the production and transmission of<p>knowledge, these institutions, interestingly, share other common characteristics: they both emerged before the Industrial Revolution, their importance increased over the centuries and they seem unavoidable today, and many actors are private not-for-profit. / Doctorat en Sciences économiques et de gestion / info:eu-repo/semantics/nonPublished

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:ulb.ac.be/oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/210554
Date05 March 2008
CreatorsWalckiers, Alexis
ContributorsDewatripont, Mathias, Cantillon, Estelle, Wilkin, Luc, Legros, Patrick, Ginsburgh, Victor, Veugelers, Reinhilde
PublisherUniversite Libre de Bruxelles, Université libre de Bruxelles, Faculté des sciences sociales, politiques et économiques – Sciences économiques, Bruxelles
Source SetsUniversité libre de Bruxelles
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
Typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis, info:ulb-repo/semantics/openurl/vlink-dissertation
Format1 v. (150 p.), No full-text files

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