This article deals with the main economic keys that explain the evolution in the deployment of prisoners and prisoners of war on extending and reconstructing the railways. The first part presents a list of the works carried out during the Spanish civil war and the Francoist dictatorship....

This paper uses a stochastic cost frontier model to investigate the efficiency of Britain’s private railways during the period 1893-1912. We find that there was substantial inefficiency in the industry with no sign of reduction over time. Our main conclusion is that principal agent problems...

This paper revisits the issue of the productivity performance of pre-World War I Britain’s railway system with an improved dataset and with modern time-series econometrics. We find a slowdown in TFP growth between 1850 and 1870, after which it stabilized at about 1.1%. An analysis of...

El objetivo de este trabajo es el de analizar si existían elementos objetivos, de carácter tecnológico o infraestructural, que impidieran un temprano nacimiento de la industria de construcción de material ferroviario y, específicamente, de locomotoras de vapor. Para ello se hace un repaso a...

Im Zuge der mit der Marktbeobachtung einhergehenden statistischen Datenaufbereitungdiskutiert die Bundesnetzagentur seit einiger Zeit mit den Eisenbahnunternehmendie Entwicklung der realen Eisenbahninfrastrukturkosten sowie mögliche Varianten einesgeeigneten Inputpreisindex. Ein solcher Index...

Die Bundesnetzagentur hat am 26. Mai 2008 ihren Abschlussbericht zur Einführungeiner Anreizregulierung im Eisenbahnsektor vorgelegt. Ein zentrales Element der geplantenPrice-Cap-Formel ist der X-Faktor, der den allgemeinen Produktivitätsfortschrittund spezifische Effizienzsteigerungspotentiale...

Nowadays, in the competitive passenger transport market, customer value is the key to retain customers and solidify market share. Value creation and improvement is a competitive strategy for all kinds of business to gain competitive advantage in the market. Value chain analysis is commonly used...