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Competition in the German interurban bus industry : a snapshot two years after liberalization

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015

We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In addition to a brief characterization of the liberalization process and several general market developments, we provide a detailed analysis of selected market characteristics such as...

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Deregulation, competition, and consolidation : the case of the German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Heim, Sven; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2015

We provide an empirical assessment of the German interurban bus industry two years after its deregulation in January 2013. In addition to a general description of key developments of the industry, we use a unique route-level price data set to study both competitive interaction in general and the...

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Deregulation and the determinants of entry : evidence from the German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2016

routes including an airport or with low quality rail connection. Furthermore, both market leaders refrain from entering small …

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Deregulation and the determinants of network access : evidence from the German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2016

We investigate the characteristics of cities gaining access to the German interurban bus network in the first two years following the deregulation of the industry in January 2013. Applying both parametric and semi-parametric survival models, we find strong evidence that the probability of a city...

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Patterns of entry and exit in the deregulated German interurban bus industry

Dürr, Niklas S.; Hüschelrath, Kai - 2017

We study patterns of entry and exit in the German interurban bus industry in the first three years after its deregulation in January 2013. Using a comprehensive data set of all firm and route entries and exits, we find that the industry grew much quicker than originally expected - with...

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Who should pay for certification?

Stahl, Konrad; Strausz, Roland - 2011

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer - the seller - follows from a nontrivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device,...

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Zwischen Sozialromantik und Neoliberalismus : zur Ökonomie der Sharing-Economy

Peitz, Martin; Schwalbe, Ulrich - 2016

Der vorliegende Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die wesentlichen ökonomischen Aspekte der so genannten Sharing-Economy. Bei den dort tätigen Unternehmen handelt es sich zumeist um Plattformen, die direkte Transaktionen zwischen Akteuren mit dem Zweck einer temporären Nutzung dauerhafter...

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Entry and competition in freight transport : the case of a prospective transalpine rail link between France and Italy

Prady, Delphine; Ullrich, Hannes - 2010

We analyze the expected effects of building a rail tunnel between Lyon and Turin on i) the market shares of the … established and the new suppliers, and ii) consumer surplus. The prospective project consists of a 53km rail tunnel providing … freight ; New rail infrastructure ; Simulation model ; Competition …

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Efficient contracts for government intervention in promoting next generation communications networks

Briglauer, Wolfgang; Holzleitner, Christian - 2014

Although the future socio-economic benefits of a new fibre-based (“next generation access”, NGA) telecommunications infrastructure seem to be uncontroversial, a universal NGA coverage appears to be a rather unrealistic objective without government intervention. We contend, however, that the...

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Competitive procurement design : evidence from regional passenger railway services in Germany

Hunold, Matthias; Wolf, Christoph - 2013

We study competitive awarding procedures of short haul railway passenger services in Germany from 1995 to 2011 by means of a newly collected data set. In particular, we use regression techniques to investigate the determinants of the number of bidders, the identity of the winning bidder and the...

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