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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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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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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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Railway Competition: Options for the Russian Federation

Pittman, Russell - EconWPA - 2001

In its first steps toward reform of its huge and hugely important railway system, the Russian Federation has begun corporate restructuring of a kind favored by many students of railway reform throughout the world: some kind of separation of the entity controlling the infrastructure from the...

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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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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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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 well as unbundling requirements of infrastructure and transport services. The debate focuses firstly on the question whether unbundling requirements should be extended. Secondly,...

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Offener Marktzugang im europäischen Schienenpersonenverkehr: Erfahrungen aus der Wettbewerbsentwicklung

Warnecke, Christiane; Goetz, Georg - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung / Quarterly … 81 (2012) 1, pp. 111-130

entrants have mainly been testing the market. This seems to change with new large scale entries in Italy and Austria. These … neuen Angeboten in Österreich und Italien ändert. Diese Beispiele und die Analyse der Marktcharakteristika machen deutlich …

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Optimal Design of Two-Sided Market Platforms: An Empirical Case Study of eBay

Bodoh-Creed, Aaron; Boehnke, Jörn; Hickman, Brent R. - NET Institute - 2013

While much is known about optimal design of auctions within the context of a single item for sale, little is known about optimal design of large platform markets like eBay and auto auction houses that house large numbers of concurrent auctions. We attempt a macro-level empirical market design...

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