In a relatively recent paper, Gehrig and Stenbacka (Eur Econ Rev 51, 77–99, 2007) show that information sharing increases banks’ profits to the detriment of creditworthy entrepreneurs in a model of a banking duopoly with switching costs and poaching. They restrict their analysis to the case...

Due to the availability and easy usability of bibliometric computer tools, the number of bibliometric literature reviews has soared – especially in active and dynamic research fields like Digital Finance and FinTech. This leads to the paradox situation of a high number of bibliometric...

State support in Higher Education (HE) is often justified on the grounds that HE is important for the development of the country. However, little analysis is normally done in order to assess the impact of education quality initiatives. The Mexican government has been engaging in a policy of HE...

Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) is a Linear Programming based technique for the analysis of efficiency of organisations with multiple inputs and outputs. DEA may not achieve its full potential due tot he mathematical language in which most papers and books have been written. This paper attempts...

Statistics is a standard component of most Management Science or Operational Research courses. This paper argues that the teaching of Statistics in such courses should emphasise the philosophical aspects of the discipline, should concentrate on developing concepts rather than techniques, should...