Using quarterly data for Canada and the Province of Québec, we estimate a complete demand system based on the AIDS model. We present a test of the negative semi-definiteness of the matrix of compensated price effects and of the negative quasi-definiteness of the matrix of uncompensated...

In this paper, we present the results of an analysis of Québec local health care clinics (CLSC) based on a DEA method. Our results confirm previous results based on econometric methods: (1) increasing returns to scale and scope economies imply that average cost could be lowered through...

In the Province of Québec, public colleges depend heavily on public funding: 85% of their budget come from the Department of Education. Those institutions complain that their financial resources are insufficient since Québec government decided to cut their budget in the mid-90. Of course, this...

We survey and synthetize the literature on the measurement of technical progress by the method of Divisia. The approach is first presented under a number of crucial simplifying assumptions. Then we relax those assumptions to allow for non constant returns, the presence of quasi-fix factors of...

For the last fifteen years, a considerable effort has been made to better measure hospital performance. This effort, however, has not extended to other types of health care facilities which play a growing role following the transformation of the health care system triggered by budgetary...