Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Getz, Malcolm"

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    • Open Scholarship and Research Universities 
      Getz, Malcolm (Vanderbilt University, 2005)
      Compare the cost per article for publication in commercial journals, not-profit journals, and open-access journals. For universities that support open-archives and open-access journal management software as part of standard ...
    • Open-Access Scholarly Publishing: In Economic Perspective 
      Getz, Malcolm (Vanderbilt University, 2004)
      What is the prospect for migrating scholarly journals from paper to digital formats in a way that lowers university expenditures? Although many journals are published digitally, at least so far, the digital format complements ...
    • The Sensitivity of Capital Use to Price in Higher Education 
      Getz, Malcolm; Siegfried, John J. (Vanderbilt University, 2004)
      We test whether U.S. colleges and universities adjust their physical capital intensity to differences in factor prices by regressing the square feet of space per student on construction prices across institutions. The ...
    • What Does Intercollegiate Athletics Do To or For Colleges and Universities? 
      Getz, Malcolm; Siegfried, John (Vanderbilt University, 2010)
      Abstract: What tangible benefit do universities who participate in major televised sports achieve from their commitment? The essay reviews the evidence on the gains in public funding, attraction of philanthropy, increases ...
    • Where Do the Children Of Professors Attend College? 
      Siegfried, John J.; Getz, Malcolm (Vanderbilt University, 2003)
      To ask whether the best-informed consumers of higher education, the faculty, make different choices than other similarly endowed consumers, we compare the pattern of colleges chosen by 5,592 children of college and university ...