We study the correlation between technical or organisational change and the incidence of firm-provided training across age groups, in order to test the hypothesis that older workers suffer from a comparative disadvantage with regard to training, whose consequences increase in times of changes....

With the increasing domination of foreign capital in banking sectors of transition countries, it is of the highest interest to investigate the relative performance of domestic-owned and foreign-owned banks in these countries. We therefore aim here to compare the technical efficiency of...

This paper aims at providing theoretical foundations to the role of customer relationship as a strategic barrier to entry on banking markets. A bank which grants a loan to a customer gains a comparative advantage in information on this customer as compared with competitors. This informational...