Productivity Issues in Services at the Micro Level A Special Issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis

7 take advantage of the panel structure of their data to control for possible errors of specifica­ tion in their models. It is interesting to note that the econometric and DEA methods may be closer than some of their respective advocates seem to believe. Several of the studies show that the former a...

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Other Authors: Griliches, Zvi (Editor), Mairesse, Jacques (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1993, 1993
Edition:1st ed. 1993
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Productivity Issues In Services At The Micro Level
  • Editors’ Introduction
  • Cost and Technical Change: Effects from Bank Deregulation
  • Economies of Scale and Scope in French Commercial Banking Industry
  • Economies of Scale and Scope in French Banking and Savings Institutions
  • Comments on “Economies of Scale and Scope in French Banking and Savings Institutions”
  • Productive Performance of the French Insurance Industry
  • Productivity and Computers in Canadian Banking
  • Efficiency and Productivity Growth Comparisons of European and U.S. Air Carriers: A First Look at the Data
  • Cost Effects of Mergers and Deregulation in the U.S. Rail Industry
  • Provision of Child Care: Cost Functions for Profit-Making and Not-For-Profit Day Care Centers
  • Efficiency, Quality, and Social Externalities in the Provision of Day Care: Comparisons of Nonprofit and For-Profit Firms
  • On FDH Efficiency Analysis: Some Methodological Issues and Applications to Retail Banking, Courts, and Urban Transit
  • A Look at Productivity at the Firm Level in Eight French Service Industries