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Implementation of EU legislation on rail liberalisation in Belgium, France, Germany and The Netherlands
Deville, Xavier; Verduyn, Fabienne - Nationale Bank van België/Banque national de Belqique (BNB) - 2012
This study provides a detailed and easy-to read overview of the railway liberalisation in Belgium and the three … neighbouring countries. The European Union's liberalisation Directives are often complex and are implemented in very specific ways … enterprises with the separation of infrastructure from operations. The study takes a look at the impact of the European rail …
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Determinants of Organizational Form : Transaction Costs and Institutions in the European Trucking Industry
Arruñada, Benito - 2018
We explain why European trucking carriers are much smaller and rely more heavily on owner-operators (as opposed to employee drivers) than their US counterparts. Our analysis begins by ruling out differences in technology as the source of those disparities and confirms that standard hypotheses in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012706596
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EXCLUSIVE SAFEGUARDS AND TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER: Subcontracting Agreements in Eastern Europe’s Car Component Industry
Møllgaard, H. Peter; Lorentzen, Jochen - Økonomisk Institut, Copenhagen Business School - 2002
We study the rationale for the use of exclusivity to protect transfer of technology in <p> subcontracting agreements. The legal possibility arises through the EU Notice on <p> Subcontracting. Empirically, the link between exclusive agreements and technology transfer <p> among firms in the automotive...</p></p></p>
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419381
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Computer Mediated Transactions
Varian, Hal R. - In: American Economic Review 100 (2010) 2, pp. 1-10
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Competition Effects in a Liberalized Railway Market
Lang, Markus; Laperrouza, Marc; Finger, Matthias - Institut für Strategie und Unternehmensökonomik … - 2010
This paper presents a game-theoretic model of a liberalized railway market, in which train operation and ownership of infrastructure are vertically separated. We analyze how the regulatory agency will optimally set the charges that operators have to pay to the infrastructure manager for access...
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Density and Integration Effects on Class I U.S. Freight Railroads.
Ivaldi, M.; McCullough, G. - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Mathématique et … - 1999
Rationalization of U.S. freight railroads following the Staggers Rail Act of 1980 had led to lower real rates for many …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486529
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Regulierungsrahmen und Abgeltungsmodelle im Schienengüterverkehr
Trinkner, Urs; Jaag, Christian; Dietl, Helmut - In: Studies and Reports (2010) June, pp. 1-81
The study analyzes the current regulatory environment in the Swiss rail freight sector from an economic point of view …
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What affects customer success when bargaining for a new car? Some empirical evidence
Azar, Ofer H. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 1, pp. 26-30
Data about 233 new car models were collected, and a measure of customer success in bargaining for a new car (alpha) was created by computing the ratio between the discount received on the manufacturer's suggested retail price (MSRP) and the negotiable range (MSRP−dealer's car cost). One...
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How does relationship-based governance accommodate new entrants? Evidence from the cycle rickshaw rental market
Jain, Tarun; Sood, Ashima - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
A large theoretical and empirical literature suggests that the salience of network-based ties in contract enforcement under relation-based governance systems limits market expansion. This paper illustrates the incorporation of new agents into market exchange under conditions of informal contract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259043
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Competition and Industry Structure for International Rail Transportation
Friebel, Guido; Ivaldi, Marc; Pouyet, Jérôme - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
access to multiple national networks to provide international (freight or passenger) transport services. The EU rail system …
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