Several bargaining solutions could fail to capture advantage from having sets closer to the same utopia point. If the whole frontier of the set is improved maintaining the same utopia point, these solutions outcome remains stagnant at the same point. We called this phenomena the stagnation...

This study investigates the evolution of banking efficiency of post-communist new EU member countries over a time span 1998 to 2003. In these transition economies major strides were taken during this period to establish functioning market economies and financial systems for their EU membership...