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Productivity Growth in European Railways: Technological Progress,Efficiency Change and Scale Effects
Wetzel, Heike - 2008
This paper analyzes the performance of the European railway sector in the period of deregulation (1990-2005). Using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545376
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764845
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Contract Renewal as an Incentive Device. An Application to the French Urban Public Transport Sector
Gautier, Axel; Yvrande-Billon, Anne - In: Review of Economics and Institutions 4 (2013) 1
in the French urban public transport industry, operations are often delegated and periodically put out for tender. Thus, operators’ incentives to reduce costs come from both profit maximization during the current contract and from the perspective of contract renewal. We construct a dynamic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010732257
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Contract renewal as an incentive device. An application to the French urban public transport sector
GAUTIER, Axel; YVRANDE-BILLON, Anne - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
In the French urban public transport industry, services are often delegated to a private firm by the mean of a fixed-term regulatory contract. This contract specifies the duties of the firm and a financial compensation. When it expires, a new contract is awarded, possibly to a different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005043418
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Assessing the efficient cost of sustaining Britain’s rail network: perspectives based on Zonal comparisons
Kennedy, J.; Smith, A.S.J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2003
The objective of this paper is to inform the debate on how efficiency targets for Network Rail (formerly Railtrack) should be set during the 2002/03 Interim Review and beyond. Given the problems experienced during the 2000 Periodic Review, which focused on external benchmarks, we propose an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113822
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Motor Bus Deregulation and the Gender Wage Gap: A Test of the Becker Hypothesis
Schwarz-Miller, Ann; Talley, Wayne IL - In: Eastern Economic Journal 26 (2000) 2, pp. 145-156
findings provide strong support for the hypothesis that motor bus deregulation, by creating an increasingly competitive … status of unionized white female drivers relative to white males improved significantly subsequent to deregulation, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196790
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The Determinants of Truck Accidents in the United States
Loeb, Peter D.; Clarke, William A. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-Newark - 2005
accidents. However, deregulation of the trucking industry did not have a statistically significant adverse effect on these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005519065
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Productivity and Deregulation in European Railways
Cantos Sánchez, Cantos Sánchez Pedro; Serrano … - Fundación BBVA - 2012
fundamental to use extended and updated data covering the more recent period and more countries, given that most deregulation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662882
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Estimating allocative efficiency in port authorities with demand uncertainty
Hidalgo, Soraya; Núñez-Sánchez, Ramón - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper aims to analyse the impact of port demand variability on the allocative efficiency of Spanish port authorities during the period 1986-2007. From a distance function model we can obtain a measure of allocative efficiency using two different approaches: error components approach and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112705
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Productivity and Efficiency of US Gas Transmission Companies: A European Regulatory Perspective
Jamasb, T.; Pollitt, M.G.; Triebs, T. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2008
On both sides of the Atlantic the regulation of gas transmission networks has undergone major changes since the early 1990’s. Whereas in the US the long-standing regime of cost-plus regulation was complemented by increasing pipe-to-pipe competition, most European countries moved towards...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207828