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The purpose of this communication is to quantify the effects of the process of merging university departments at the Complutense University of Madrid using non-parametric Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) techniques. More specifically, we seek to evaluate the potential gains from the merging of university departments, relying on the three savings effects introduced by Bogetoft and Wang (2006) and Bogetoft and Otto (2011), referred to as the learning effect, the harmony or scope effect and the scale effect, as well as a new regulation effect proposed in this communication. To analyse the production of university departments through DEA, we assume non-diminishing returns to scale (NDRS). In summary, the impact of the reorganisation of the structure of departments at UCM during the 2017-2018 course, reducing their number from 184 to 97, can be quantified at around €20.5 million per year, which can be used to increase productive inputs to produce more teaching and research outputs.
Keywords: DEA, mergers, efficiency, university, departments.
