Since 1988, Sweden’s railways have been vertically separated with (private or public) train operators paying for the use of government-owned railway infrastructure. The present paper scrutinizes today’s charging regime ...

This paper deals with rail infrastructure charging. It gives examples of identified best practice in relation to the determination of marginal costs.

The paper overviews the European transport infrastructure charging policy and research.

Funktionsfähiger Wettbewerb auf den europäischen Luftverkehrsmärkten erfordert den diskriminierungsfreien Zugang zu den Flughäfen für sämtliche aktiven und potenziellen Anbieter von Flugverkehr. Daneben gilt es, eine effiziente Allokation knapper Infrastrukturkapazitäten sowie die...

Using time-series cross-section data from the manufacturing sector of the 11Bundesländer from 1970 to 1993, we examine the impact of road infrastructure onprivate production applying three different approaches; i.e., a Cobb-Douglas production function, a translog production function and a...

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital...

Research into the origins of economic growth in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire has so far suffered from a lack of evidence on the evolution of the capital stock. As a first step towards a more comprehensive documentation of the role played by factor inputs in the Habsburg growth...