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This book focuses on the empirical analysis of productivity in services at the firm level. Productivity studies are still scarce in services, especially in view of the major role of the services sector in modern developed economies and the increasing concern about its performance. The services industries studied in this volume are quite diverse, with a strong representation of financial services. All analyses are performed on the microlevel, being based on cross-sectional or panel data for samples of firms of widely varying sizes. They focus on a variety of topics ranging from comparing the efficiency of different categories of service firms or exploring the impact of mergers and deregulation on productivity performance to assessing the magnitude of returns to scale and scope or investigating the properties of different parametric or nonparametric methods to estimate cost and production functions.

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Author:   Zvi Griliches ,  Jacques Mairesse
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Reprinted from THE JOURNAL OF PRODUCTIVITY ANALYSIS, 4:1-2, 1993
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.516kg
ISBN:  

9780792393351

ISBN 10:   079239335
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   30 June 1993
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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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.

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