"In year 1999 the EURO working group on Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding celebrated 25 years of activity, that is 50 regular meetings. This book contains a selection of papers presented at the 49th meeting (which took place in Milano and Como, Italy, 18-19/3/1999) and 50th meeting (which took...

Despite progress in the past decade, financial markets in Colombia remain relatively small and shallow. In particular the banking system suffers high intermediation costs, which limit constrains access to finance by households and firms. This paper explores some of the causes behind these...

This paper derives estimates of the efficiency of welfare spending in Slovenia and the other OECD countries from data envelopment analysis based on model specifications used in earlier OECD studies. Results suggest that Slovenia ranks about 25th among OECD countries for output efficiency: for a...