The paper analyses the characteristics of the supply of higher education in different
geographical macroareas using a strategic interaction framework. It focuses on universities …

The paper analyzes the characteristics of the supply of higher education in different
geographical macroareas using a strategic interaction framework. We investigate the issue …

This paper analyzes in a two-country model the impact of students' mobility on the country-
specific level of higher educational quality. Individuals decide whether and where to study …

We explore a potential source of human capital spatial disparities: the unequal access to
tertiary education caused by the absence/presence of a local university. Because the …

In this paper we analyze to what extent devolution of responsibilities in higher education to
subna tional levels of government affects quality of higher education. We isolate the effects …

Regional cohesion and competition for students has fostered interest in the decision-making
process behind the selection of higher education institution. We use a gravity model …

This paper uses our own built historical data for Italy to analyse the effects of the modern
supply of higher education institutions on economic welfare, measured in terms of real …

In this paper we consider two regions competing for the larger part of the investment by a
mobile firm whose decision is based on the quality of human capital in each region. This in …

This paper studies the role of skill heterogeneity in “new economic geography” models of
location. In our setting, products are both horizontally and vertically differentiated, and …

Within a microeconomic framework, educational mobility and inequality are studied. The
labour market is characterized by imperfectly substitutable skills and production occurs in …