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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 …

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Better safe than sorry? Reliability policy in network industries

Aalbers, Rob; Shestalova, Victoria; Onderstal, Sander - Centraal Planbureau (CPB), Government of the Netherlands - 2004

This report develops a roadmap for reliability policy in network industries. Based on economic theory, we analyse the relationship between reliability and various types of government policy: privatisation, liberalisation, regulation, unbundling, and 'commitment policy'. We let government...

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The Infrastructure-Superstructure Distinction in the Railroad Industry and the Regulation of Natural Monopolies.

Numa, Guy - Université Paris-Dauphine

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The Economics of Railroad “Captive Shipper” Legislation

Pittman, Russell - Antitrust Division, Department of Justice - 2010

Recent rate increases by U.S. freight railroads have refocused attention on regulation, deregulation, and regulatory reforms in the railroad industry. Legislation introduced into Congress would render a variety of railroad behavior newly subject to the jurisdiction of the antitrust statutes,...

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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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The Determinants of Truck Accidents in the United States

Loeb, Peter D.; Clarke, William A. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-Newark - 2005

This paper examines the determinants of truck accidents in the United States using a time series data set covering the period 1970-2001. Econometric models are developed and subjected to a set of specification error tests so as to increase the probability of selecting models which are...

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Taxi and limousine services after the Bersani reform: an investigation on main Italian cities

Bentivogli, Chiara - Banca d'Italia - 2008

Using data from a Bank of Italy survey, this paper analyzes the Italian taxi market and its recent changes. Local …

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The taxi service in Italy: motivation and outline of the recent reform

Bentivogli, Chiara; Calderini, Manuela - Banca d'Italia - 2007

results of a survey of the Bank of Italy on the main Italian cities show that the supply of taxi is much lower than that of … one adopted in Italy, lacks a solid analytical as well an empirical basis for support. Likely, the lower availability of … taxi in Italy does not reflect only quantity and price regulation but also other characteristics of the regulation itself …

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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 stochastic frontier panel data model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity a multiple-output multiple input distance function model is estimated in order to evaluate the...

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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...

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