When defining how to implement tendering procedures for the regional bus transportation industry, one of the main problems local authorities have to face is setting the area size to be assigned as franchised monopoly. Copyright 2003 CIRIEC.

type="main" xml:lang="fr" <title type="main">La demande de repas scolaires en Suisse</title> <p>Dans cet article la demande des parents en matière de repas scolaires pour leurs enfants est étudiée par la méthode des préférences déclarées. Les données ont été recueillies par téléphone sur un modèle d'entretiens...</p>

This paper examines the issue of cost-efficiency in Switzerland's nursing homes, an issue of concern to policy makers because of the rapid growth of elderly care expenditure and the aging of the population. The fact that nursing homes in Switzerland exist in different institutional forms,...

This paper explores the application of several panel data models in measuring productive efficiency of the electricity distribution sector. Stochastic Frontier Analysis has been used to estimate the cost-efficiency of 59 distribution utilities operating over a nine-year period in Switzerland....

This paper analyzes the demand of Swiss families for child care facilities. A choice experiment is used to study the effects of the facilities' characteristics as well as socio-economic factors on the selected child care mode. The experimental data are analyzed using a discrete choice model with...