In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a … and, thus, produce railway services with a higher level of efficiency. To determine whether joint or separate production … is more efficient, we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis super-efficiency bootstrapping model which relates the efficiency …

influence on productivity can be compensated by efficiency gains. The findings indicate an increase in real unit labor cost as a … observed for the majority of the theaters which implies that significant efficiency gains can be realized by the exploitation …-disease ; efficiency ; stochastic frontier analysis …