CONTENTS
Editors' Introduction / Zvi Griliches ; Jacques Mairesse = 1
Cost and Technical Change : Effects from Bank Deregulation / David B. Humphrey = 5
Economies of Scale and Scope in French Commercial Banking Industry / Michel dietsch = 31
Economies of Scale and Scope in French Banking and Savings Institutions / Ugur Muldur ; Mohamed Sassenou = 47
Comments on "Economies of Scale and Scope in French Banking and Savings Institutions" / Frank C. Wykoff = 69
Productive Performance of the French Insurance Industry / F. Fecher ; D. Kessler ; S. perelman ; P. Pestieau = 73
Productivity and Computers in Canadian Banking / Darrell Parsons ; Calvin C. Gotlieb ; Michael Denny = 91
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-Hendrick R o ·· ller ; Robin C. Sickles = 111
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 = 123
Provision of Child Care : Cost Functions for Profit-Making and Not-For-Profit Day Care Centers / Swati Mukerjee ; Ann Dryden Witte = 141
Efficiency, Quality, and Social Externalities in the Provision of Day Care : Comparisons of Nonprofit and For-Profit Firms / Anne E. preston = 161
On FDH Efficiency Analysis : Some Methodological Issues and Applications to Retail Banking, Courts, and Urban Transit / Henry Tulkens = 179
A Look at Productivity at the Firm Level in Eight French Service Industries / Jacques Mairesse ; Elizabeth Kremp = 207
