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Regulated Versus Negotiated Access Pricing in Vertically Separated Railway Systems : Online Appendix

Besanko, David - 2019

This paper studies access pricing under three regimes: regulated access (VSR), negotiated access with discriminatory pricing (VSD) and negotiated access with non-discriminatory pricing (VSN). We compare each regime along three metrics: network quality, consumer surplus, and social welfare. To do...

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Liberalization of Pakistan's National Rail Transport System - Establishing a Competitive Regulatory Framework for Long Term Sustainable Growth

Javed, Syed Umair - 2013

The dissertation attempts to see whether liberalizing Pakistan’s national rail transport system will enable the latter to grow sustainably. First an assessment of existing literature on the subject was conducted. Then Pakistan’s national rail transport system is studied in a multi-facet...

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Processes, Information and Accounting Gaps in the Regulation of Argentina's Private Railways

Estache, Antonio; Campos, Javier; Trujillo, Lourdes - 2002

Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of the conflicts between regulators, users and operators continues to take longer, and to be more difficult than expected. This paper shows that many of these conflicts arose because there are no rule of interactions...

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Railway (De)Regulation : A European Efficiency Comparison

Friebel, Guido; Ivaldi, Marc; Vibes, Catherine - 2005

Many European countries have sought to increase the efficiency of national railroad companies through a range of reforms: separating infrastructure and operations, creating independent regulatory institutions and providing access to the network to third parties. To estimate the effects of...

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Interchanging parts : productive railroad cooperation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Glock, Judge - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 42 (2024) 2, pp. 120-132

Although many economic and business historians have examined how American railroads colluded to raise rates or limit service, they have paid less attention to the many ways railroads cooperated to exchange cars and freight between companies and build needed interconnections. This article...

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Railways Reform and Electricity Reform in Russia, and the Role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy

Pittman, Russell W. - 2003

The Russian Federation is in the process of making major structural changes to its railway and electricity sectors. Both sectors will be at least partly vertically disintegrated, with the aim of creating competition in the "upstream" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the...

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Economic Regulation Assessment of Network Industries : Railway Infrastructure Management in Estonia

Uukkivi, Raigo - 2018

Naturally monopolistic network industries are subject to regulation of access to market and charging in order to … regulation generate and whether it achieves objectives. Literature states that due to the context-specific nature of regulatory … framework, ex post analysis and practical experiments are necessary to study the impact of economic regulation. In this paper …

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Railways : Structure, Regulation and Competition Policy

Biggar, Darryl R. - 2002

This publication (of 264 pages) represents the proceedings of a roundtable on regulation and competition issues arising … papers examining issues in the regulation of railways and submissions from 15 countries describing the regulatory regime for …

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Léon Walras on Industrial Regulation : Railroads as Economic and Moral State Monopolies

Álvarez, Andrés - 2010

Modern microeconomics foundations of industrial regulation policies were developed during the second half of the 19th … at this time was the participation of the State on the provision and regulation of this industry.In France, between the …

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Biased quality investments and organisational structures in network industries : an application to the railway industry

Pakula, Benjamin; Goetz, Georg - 2011

regulation, vertical integration and legal unbundling regimes provide highest investment incentives and lead to highest welfare … entrant since this would worsen double marginalisation. When the network operator is subject to a break-even regulation, the … Integration ; Investment ; Foreclosure ; Regulation …

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