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Productivity Issues in Services at the Micro Level

A Special Issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis

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  1. Zvi Griliches
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  2. Jacques Mairesse
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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-iv
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  2. Editors’ Introduction

    • Zvi Griliches, Jacques Mairesse
    Pages 1-4

  3. Cost and Technical Change: Effects from Bank Deregulation

    • David B. Humphrey
    Pages 5-30

  4. Economies of Scale and Scope in French Commercial Banking Industry

    • Michel Dietsch
    Pages 31-46

  5. Economies of Scale and Scope in French Banking and Savings Institutions

    • Ugur Muldur, Mohamed Sassenou
    Pages 47-68

  6. Comments on “Economies of Scale and Scope in French Banking and Savings Institutions” by Ugur Muldur and Mohamed Sassenou

    • Frank C. Wykoff
    Pages 69-72

  7. Productive Performance of the French Insurance Industry

    • F. Fecher, D. Kessler, S. Perelman, P. Pestieau
    Pages 73-89

  8. Productivity and Computers in Canadian Banking

    • Darrell Parsons, Calvin C. Gotlieb, Michael Denny
    Pages 91-109

  9. Efficiency and Productivity Growth Comparisons of European and U.S. Air Carriers: A First Look at the Data

    • David H. Good, M. Ishaq Nadiri, Lars-Hendrik Röller, Robin C. Sickles
    Pages 111-121

  10. Cost Effects of Mergers and Deregulation in the U.S. Rail Industry

    • Ernst R. Berndt, Ann F. Friedlaender, Judy Shaw-Er Wang Chiang, Christopher A. Vellturo
    Pages 123-140

  11. Provision of Child Care: Cost Functions for Profit-Making and Not-for-Profit Day Care Centers

    • Swati Mukerjee, Ann Dryden Witte
    Pages 141-159

  12. Efficiency, Quality, and Social Externalities in the Provision of Day Care: Comparisons of Nonprofit and For-Profit Firms

    • Anne E. Preston
    Pages 161-178

  13. On FDH Efficiency Analysis:Some Methodological Issues and Applications to Retail Banking, Courts, and Urban Transit

    • Henry Tulkens
    Pages 179-206

  14. A Look at Productivity at the Firm Level in Eight French Service Industries

    • Jacques Mairesse, Elizabeth Kremp
    Pages 207-230
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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 as well as the latter can be effectively used to assess the relative effi­ ciency of groups of firms or individual firms, and one of them explicitly compare results arising from both (Fecher et al.). Econometric techniques can also be nonparametric and applied to estimating cost or production frontiers (and not only "average" functions), while ultimately DEA should be amenable to statistical inference. Perhaps the most valuable feature of all the analyses is their care and ingenuity in putting together the data, measuring variables, and pulling out relevant information. Many of them are not content with an overall output measure, but endeavor to manage with less aggregated measures. Nearly all also include in the estimated models a number of auxiliary variables intended to control for specific attributes of outputs, inputs, or production techniques, and other characteristics of firms.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Productivity Issues in Services at the Micro Level

  • Book Subtitle: A Special Issue of the Journal of Productivity Analysis

  • Editors: Zvi Griliches, Jacques Mairesse

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2200-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7923-9335-1Published: 30 June 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-4975-7Published: 11 October 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-011-2200-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IV, 230

  • Topics: Microeconomics

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