We propose a systematic approach to analyzing academic research performance at universities and research institutes. The analysis of research performance is based on a set of (abstract) criteria which are relevant from the decision maker’s point of view. The scales for these criteria are defined by means of concrete indicators. All indicators are, however, not necessarily quantitative. Qualitat...

As governmental subsidies to universities are declining in recent years, sustaining excellence in academic performance and more efficient use of resources have become important issues for university stakeholders. To assess the academic performances and the utilization of the resources, two important issues need to be addressed, i.e., a capable methodology and a set of good performance indica...

We investigate methods to vaccinate contact networks-i.e. removing nodes in such a way that disease spreading is hindered as much as possible-with respect to their cost-efficiency. Any real implementation of such protocols would come with costs related both to the vaccination itself, and gathering of information about the network. Disregarding this, we argue, would lead to erroneous evaluation ...

There is a widespread concern that a greater mobility of individuals can undermine any attempt to redistribute income at the local level. In this paper we derive the equilibrium level of redistribution when both the rich and the poor are mobile (although in diierent degrees) and when each jurisdiction chooses its redistributive policy by majority voting. This leads to a fundamental interaction ...

Multi-unit auctions are being employed by public agencies to allocate resources and to purchase services. These auctions resolve the lumpy bid problem inherent in single-unit auctions by allowing bidders to submit a supply or demand schedule. However, the choice of pricing formats for multi-unit auctions is controversial. Neither economic theory nor laboratory experiments depict a complete pict...

Traditional data envelopment analysis models split decision making units into two basic groups, efficient and inefficient. They are based on solving linear optimization problems and currently they represent very popular tool for efficiency and performance evaluation. Efficiency scores of inefficient units allows their ranking but efficient units cannot be ranked directly because of their maximu...