Bitzan, John D.; Keeler, Theodore E. - In: Southern Economic Journal 70 (2003) 2, pp. 232-253
This study analyzes the effects of an important postderegulation innovation on rail freight productivity: the elimination of cabooses and related crew members. It also analyzes the overall growth of productivity in rail freight between 1983 and 1997 (using a translog rail cost function estimated...