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...

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...

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...

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...

This paper explores the Kuhn-Tucker conditions and convexity in a non-linear DEA model for the joint determination of efficiencies developed by Mar Molinero (1994). It is shown that the usual convexity conditions that apply to Linear Programming problems are satisfied in this case. First order...