This paper proposes a model of standardization of costs per student in Italian universities. The model was used by the Ministery for university and Research in the allocation of funds for the 1995 readjustment quota, as stated by the recent reform of the university funding system. After a discussion of the standardization criteria adopted, of the nature of costs and data, the results of the econometric analysis are presented. Such analysis gives clues the variability in cost per student in each university on the basis of size, geografical location, finance, technologies and quality, with a good fit and satisfactory statistical tests. In order for the relevance of variables not to be influenced by the "history" of the university system, though, in a second phase normative correctives have been applied to the standardization process. The method of allocation of the readjustment quota is based on the ratio of standard costs per university to total standard costs of the university system. Finally, feasible strategies in the management of resources by universities are analysed in relation to the new framework of financial responsibility and to the system of incentives deriving from the application of the model.

La standardizzazione dei costi nel sistema universitario italiano / Giarda, P.; Petretto, A.; Catalano, G.; Silvestri, Paolo. - In: POLITICA ECONOMICA. - ISSN 1120-9496. - STAMPA. - 12 (3):(1996), pp. 3-48.

La standardizzazione dei costi nel sistema universitario italiano

SILVESTRI, Paolo
1996

Abstract

This paper proposes a model of standardization of costs per student in Italian universities. The model was used by the Ministery for university and Research in the allocation of funds for the 1995 readjustment quota, as stated by the recent reform of the university funding system. After a discussion of the standardization criteria adopted, of the nature of costs and data, the results of the econometric analysis are presented. Such analysis gives clues the variability in cost per student in each university on the basis of size, geografical location, finance, technologies and quality, with a good fit and satisfactory statistical tests. In order for the relevance of variables not to be influenced by the "history" of the university system, though, in a second phase normative correctives have been applied to the standardization process. The method of allocation of the readjustment quota is based on the ratio of standard costs per university to total standard costs of the university system. Finally, feasible strategies in the management of resources by universities are analysed in relation to the new framework of financial responsibility and to the system of incentives deriving from the application of the model.
1996
12 (3)
3
48
La standardizzazione dei costi nel sistema universitario italiano / Giarda, P.; Petretto, A.; Catalano, G.; Silvestri, Paolo. - In: POLITICA ECONOMICA. - ISSN 1120-9496. - STAMPA. - 12 (3):(1996), pp. 3-48.
Giarda, P.; Petretto, A.; Catalano, G.; Silvestri, Paolo
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