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Rendements d’échelle, progrès technique et croissance de la productivité dans les industries québécoise et ontarienne de transport par camion, 1981-1988

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  • Dionne, Georges

    (Département de sciences économiques, Université de Montréal)

  • Gagné, Robert

    (Institut d’économie appliquée, École des Hautes Études Commerciales, Université de Montréal)

Abstract

In the first part of the article we present an update of Gagné and Dionne (1988) results. We show that trucking industries in Quebec and Ontario had a cost structure, during the period 1981-1988, that corresponds to a competitive industry; this justifies the recent deregulation moves. The results also show that small firms had higher costs than large firms and that firms in Ontario had higher costs than those in Quebec. In the second part of the article, we obtain that productivity growth declined sharply during the same period in Quebec and was on average constant in Ontario, results that are similar to those obtained by R.J. Gordon (1991) for the US trucking industry. Dans la première partie de l’article, nous mettons à jour les résultats de Gagné et Dionne (1988). Nous montrons que les industries québécoise et ontarienne de transport par camion avaient une structure de coûts durant la période 1981-1988 qui pouvait permettre la libre concurrence à long terme; ce qui justifie la déréglementation de l’industrie. Les résultats indiquent également que les petites entreprises avaient des coûts moyens supérieurs aux grandes entreprises et que les coûts moyens des entreprises de l’Ontario étaient supérieurs à ceux des entreprises du Québec. Dans la deuxième partie de l’article, nous montrons que la croissance de la productivité a été négative pour la période d’analyse au Québec et plutôt nulle en Ontario, une tendance aussi observée aux États-Unis par R.J. Gordon (1991).

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  • Dionne, Georges & Gagné, Robert, 1993. "Rendements d’échelle, progrès technique et croissance de la productivité dans les industries québécoise et ontarienne de transport par camion, 1981-1988," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 69(3), pages 139-159, septembre.
  • Handle: RePEc:ris:actuec:v:69:y:1993:i:3:p:139-159
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