Despite the growing literature on bank efficiency worldwide over the last decade, researchers have neglected the Peruvian banking sector. In this paper, the technique of data envelopment analysis (DEA) is used to investigate the efficiency of Peruvian banks for the period 2000 to 2009 to benchmark currently existing banks based on their super-efficiency scores over time. Further, an in-depth analysis of currently existing banks for the period 2008 to 2009 is conducted to check the robustness of DEA efficiency scores and the potential improvement of inputs and outputs for inefficient banks, indicating by how much and in what areas inefficient banks need to improve in order to be efficient. Our finding shows an increasing trend in technical efficiency during the period 2000 to 2009 which gives an indication of an affirmative effect of the reform process in the Peruvian banking sector. On a...

Consumers decide which aerosol product to purchase depending upon its different features or attributes. The importance that consumers give to each attribute, however, differs from one consumer to another. The ability to identify the importance of different attributes of aerosols from the consumers’ perspective is essential for improving an existing brand or launching a completely new brand of aerosol. The purpose of this study is to identify feasible offerings of aerosols from a company’s point of view and the positioning of a comparatively new brand of room air freshener among all other existing brands in the capital city of Bihar (Patna) in India. The study makes use of conjoint analysis and the multidimensional scaling technique to identify (a) the attributes of the room air freshener and their corresponding levels from the consumers’ perspective, (b) the importance of each attr...

The main purpose of the present paper is to analyze the feasibility of managing coopetition among two given agents in a firm, under a Markovian structure, where the transition probabilities are defined by the incentive schemes for cooperation and competition and the personality-tradeoffs between the two agents. Furthermore, the asymptotic behavior of the model is considered and analyzed through a numerical estimation of the different possibilities. The behavior of the steady state probabilities as a function of the incentive scheme is shown for different possibilities of personality-tradeoffs between the agents. The existence of a Dominant Coopetitive Range, wherein the steady state probability of the coopetition state is higher than the similar probabilities of the cooperation and competition state, is shown to exist for some types of personality-tradeoffs. The State Dominance Mapping i...