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In Germany, competitive franchising is increasingly being used to procure passenger railway services that were previously provided by a state monopolist. This paper analyzes 77 tenders that differ with respect to network size, service frequency, contract duration and the proximity to other lines...
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We investigate how various institutional settings affect a network provider’s incentives to invest in infrastructure quality. Under reasonable assumptions on demand, investment incentives turn out to be smaller under vertical separation than under vertical integration, though we also provide...
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with increasing returns to scale. We show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the … privatization is likely to disappear once the product market allows the entry of more than one firm.In this paper, we study the … show that privatization is preferred to regulation for intermediate values of the shadow cost of public funds (i.e., the …
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