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Sobre la relación entre liberalización y eficiencia productiva en el sector ferroviario en Europa/On the Relation between Deregulation and Productive Efficiency in European Railway...
LÉRIDA NAVARRO, CARLOS; MARTÍN, TRÁNCHEZ; MANUEL, JOSÉ - In: Estudios de Economía Aplicada 32 (2014) Mayo, pp. 813-840
modals, deregulation policies are the most relevant. The aim of this article is to contrast if these deregulation policies …. Results using aggregated data show empirical evidence of a positive association between deregulation and efficiency. However … deregulation level or even a management model that can be used as a reference in efficiency terms. …
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Wozu noch objektive Marktzugangsbeschränkungen im straßengebundenen ÖPNV?
Weiß, Hans-Jörg - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 92 (2012) 8, pp. 547-553
Der straßengebundene öffentliche Personennahverkehr wurde bislang von Liberalisierungsbestrebungen ausgenommen. Im Personenbeförderungsgesetz sind objektive Marktzugangsbeschränkungen verankert, die lediglich im Fernverkehr, nicht aber im Nahverkehr abgebaut werden sollen. Der Autor...
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Regulatory Reform in Road Freight and Retail Distribution
Boylaud, Olivier - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to analyse regulatory developments in the road freight and retail distribution industries of OECD Member countries. For each industry, the analysis is divided into four parts. First, structural developments in the industry are outlined. Second, the main features of...
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Deregulation, vertical unbundling and the performance of China's large coal-fired power plants
Zhao, Xiaoli; Ma, Chunbo - In: Energy Economics 40 (2013) C, pp. 474-483
, we study the impact of this deregulation reform on the operational efficiency for a balanced panel of 34 large power …
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China's electricity market restructuring and technology mandates: Plant-level evidence for changing operational efficiency
Ma, Chunbo; Zhao, Xiaoli - In: Energy Economics 47 (2015) C, pp. 227-237
China's electricity sector has experienced substantial efficiency improvement during the last one and a half decades. The recent literature has mostly attributed the efficiency improvement to the 2002 unbundling reform with little attention paid to the large scale retrofitting process introduced...
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The impact of structural reforms on productivity : the role of the distance to the technological frontier
Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Santos, Sílvia; Gonçalves, Inês - 2017
In recent years, literature has linked structural reforms with productivity growth. Considering Portugal’s recent comprehensive reform agenda, this topic acquires particular relevance. Using data for Portuguese firms for the period 2006-2014, this paper assesses the impact of structural...
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Product markets' deregulation : a more productive, more efficient and more resilient economy?
Monteiro, Gustavo; Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Santos, Sílvia - 2017
This paper assesses the impact of product market deregulation in upstream sectors on the productivity growth of firms …
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Tariffe autostradali: criteri di regolazione e il caso italiano
Ragazzi, Giorgio - In: ECONOMIA PUBBLICA XL (2010) 1-6, pp. 255-278
The design and regulation of highway tariffs may be quite different depending upon the objectives pursued by the State. If the aim is to protect consumers, tariffs should be tied to the concessionaire’s profit and revised frequently. Instead, fixing the tariff in advance for the entire period...
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Struggling to Understand the Stock Market
Hall, Robert E. - In: American Economic Review 91 (2001) 2, pp. 1-11
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Travel Demand Model with Heterogeneous Users and Endogenous Congestion: An application to optimal pricing of bus services
Batarce, Marco; Ivaldi, Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
We formulate and estimate a structural model for travel demand, in which users have heterogeneous preferences and make their transport decisions considering the network congestion. A key component in the model is that users have incomplete information about the preferences of other users in the...
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