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A comparison of rail liberalisation levels across four European countries

Beria, Paolo; Quinet, Emile; de Rus, Gines; Schulz, Carola - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

The paper presents the results of a research on railway regulation and liberalisation in Italy, France, Germany and … Spain. The analysed fields of regulation are the relationship between the State and the rail companies, network access …. The aim of the paper is to give a comparative overview of the rail regulation from a critical point of view, rather than …

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Restructuring the Polish Railway for Competition

Ordover, Janusz; Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

The Polish government is considering methods of the privatizing and possible restructuring of the Polish National Railway, PKP, that would improve the efficiency of the railroad while creating some form of competition in order to prevent monopoly pricing. Traditional intramodal competition is...

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Anforderungen an die konsistente Regulierung der Eisenbahnen

Miram, Frank - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 81 (2012) 1, pp. 149-165

A current topic in Germany and the EU is the review of railway legislation regarding access and price regulation as … whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly, it discusses a possible new design of price regulation … principles. Before analysing these proposals, this paper describes the specific requirements for regulation of the railway sector …

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Arenaways and other (non-edifying) railways stories

Andrea, Boitani; Francesco, Ramella - In: Mercato Concorrenza Regole (2012) 1, pp. 97-116

controls the incumbent rail service company, Trenitalia. RFI also reported to the Office of Rail Regulation (URSF) of the …

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Beyond the “bundling vs unbundling” controversy: What is at stake for the French railway?

Emmanuel, Bougna Tchofo; Crozet, Yves - In: Research in Transportation Economics 48 (2014) C, pp. 393-400

This paper uses qualitative and comparative analysis to reveal two important findings. First, in France, if the aim of … France. This result shows that France, instead of focusing on reducing transaction costs - which only represent 2% of the … total costs, should give priority to productivity gains. It is imperative to implement a programme in France that aims to …

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De nationella myndigheternas hantering av marknadsöppning inom kollektivtrafiken under 2012: Trafikverket, Transportstyrelsen, Konkurrensverket och Konsumentverket

Pyddoke, Roger; Pettersson, Stefan - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2013

Denna rapport analyserar Trafikverkets, Transportstyrelsens, Konkurrensverkets och Konsumentverkets aktiviteter med järnvägs- och kollektivtrafikmarknaderna under januari till augusti 2012. Vi finner inga indikationer på att företag av Trafikverket förfördelats i tilldelningen av...

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De nationella myndigheternas hantering av marknadsöppning inom kollektivtrafiken – Trafikverket, Transportstyrelsen, Konkurrensverket och Konsumentverket

Pyddoke, Roger; Pettersson, Stefan; Enberg, Nils - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2012

Denna rapport analyserar Trafikverkets, Transportstyrelsens, Konkurrensverkets och Konsumentverkets aktiviteter med järnvägs- och kollektivtrafikmarknaderna under 2011. Vi finner inga indikationer på att företag av Trafikverket förfördelats i tilldelningen av järnvägskapacitet. Däremot...

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The liberalization of railway passenger transport in Sweden – Outstanding regulatory challenges

Alexandersson, Gunnar; Hultén, Staffan; Nilsson, Jan-Eric - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2012

The purpose of this paper is to describe Sweden’s recent reforms to open the railway passenger markets to entry, and to addresses four critical issues for the success of the reforms; the allocation of infrastructure capacity, the provision of maintenance and terminal facilities, the access to...

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Inträdeshinder och flaskhalsar för en öppen marknad för persontransporter på järnväg

Pyddoke, Roger - CTS - Centre for Transport Studies Stockholm (KTH and VTI) - 2012

The purpose of this report is to assess the likelihood of expansion of supply from established or new operators in the Swedish passenger rail market, what may be hindrances to such developments and to analyze possible alternative measures to remove entry barriers or at least reduce their...

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Dupuit and Walras on The Natural Monopoly in Transport Industries: What They Really Wrote and Meant

Numa, Guy - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2012

In this article, I analyze and compare the contributions of Dupuit and Walras on the natural monopoly of railroads. Both theorists argued that inland waterways—as opposed to railroads—could be vertically unbundled, a point which previous authors who compared their views failed to point out....

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