C67 - Input-Output ModelsReturn

The European tertiary education is mostly financed by government. The ratio of public expenditure on the total expenditure on tertiary education is 76 % in Visegrad Group. Therefore we focused on measuring the efficiency of tertiary education in selected European countries with focus on Visegrad Group. We used DEA methodology and constructed four output-oriented models. Overall rating showed Poland on 6th place, Hungary on 15th, the Czech Republic on 16th and Slovakia on 17th. Results showed important information about managing the outputs. On the other hand, it is necessary to do other deeper analysis (e.g. increasing the number of graduates and its impact on the labor market and the economy of the country).

Since the Miller and Modigliani (1958, 1963) theory of capital structure the literature struggles to include cost of financial distress in the cash flow theories of capital structure. Besides that most of the recent models are static. Let us just remind the contributions by Cooper, and Nyborg (2006), Farber, Gillet, and Szafarz (2006), Qi, Liu and Johnson (2012) or Fernández's (2004, 2007) analysis of their predecessors' work. This paper brings dynamic, and risk consistent (in the meaning of return being purely growing function of risk), although regarding the quantification of financial distress cost somewhat simplified model. His advantage is simplicity and observability of all its exogenous (input) variables. However, the clarification of relationship between face and market value of debt, and empirical test of model are needed.