Essays on higher education and research: student capacity, tuition fees and international mobility.

Summary In a context of internationalization of higher education and research, we address two issues related to the recent dynamics of national university systems. First, using a microeconomic supply-side approach, we show that the degree of public intervention and the non-rigid capacity of institutions explain the divergence in tuition fees between regulated and deregulated university systems. Then, using a demand-side macroeconomic approach, we try to understand the factors of inelasticity of demand through gravity models including non-price determinants of international student mobility.