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Economies of scope in European railways: an efficiency analysis
Growitsch, Christian; Wetzel, Heike - 2006
In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a … and, thus, produce railway services with a higher level of efficiency. To determine whether joint or separate production … is more efficient, we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis super-efficiency bootstrapping model which relates the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265126
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Legally Separated Joint Ownership of Bidder and Auctioneer : Illustrated by the Partial Deregulation of the EU Electricity Markets
Van Koten, Silvester - 2008
In the EU electricity industry, many Vertically Integrated Utilities (VIUs) have ownership both of electricity generators and of transmission, hence VIU-owned or allied generators often are bidders in auctions for VIU-owned transmission. In Van Koten (2006) I show that welfare suffers and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012724805
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Testing for economies of scope in European railways: an effciency analysis
Growitsch, Christian; Wetzel, Heike - 2007
In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a … and, thus, produce railway services with a higher level of efficiency. To determine whether joint or separate production … is more efficient, we apply a Data Envelopment Analysis super-efficiency bootstrapping model which relates the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261671
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Network unbundling and flawed coordination : lessons from electricity and railways
Brunekreeft, Gert - 2014
What is a good balance between competition and coordination in network industries? Network unbundling aims to promote competition, but this has to be balanced against the downside of unbundling: firm-internal coordination falls away and must be replaced by external market mechanisms. This is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010423547
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The Competitive Effects of Rail Freight Mergers in the Context of European Liberalization
Stehmann, Oliver - 2011
theory of harm, and possible efficiency defenses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125549
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The Productive Effect of Transport Infrastructures : Does Road Transport Liberalization Matter?
Bottasso, Anna - 2009
In this paper we analyze the impact of motorway networks on production for a panel of twenty one manufacturing and service sectors of eleven EU countries observed over the period 1980-2003. In particular, we analyze if the degree of regulation of the road transport sector affects the link...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155875
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Industry Productivity, Infrastructure and Road Transport Liberalization in Europe
Conti, Maurizio; Bottasso, Anna - 2008
In this paper we assess the impact of both the highways network and the degree of regulation in the road freight sector on industry productivity by estimating a Cobb-Douglas production function on a panel of twenty one manufacturing and service sectors of eleven EU countries observed over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014216800
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Assessing the Level of State Aid to the Railway Sector in Selected European Countries : Insights from the Italian Case
Arrigo, Ugo; Di Foggia, Giacomo - 2016
This paper is aimed at analysing state aid to the railway sector in selected countries of the European Union. Although this is a preliminary exercise, literature lacks of specificity. From the analysis, a highly differentiated situation emerges: a group of countries with permanently lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014130652
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Railways Reform and Electricity Reform in Russia, and the Role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy
Pittman, Russell W. - 2003
The Russian Federation is in the process of making major structural changes to its railway and electricity sectors. Both sectors will be at least partly vertically disintegrated, with the aim of creating competition in the "upstream" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014075403
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Vertical disintegration in the European electricity sector : empirical evidence on lost synergies
Gugler, Klaus; Liebensteiner, Mario; Schmitt, Stephan - 2014
The EU has been promoting unbundling of the transmission grid from other stages of the electricity supply chain with the aim of fostering competition in the upstream stage of electricity generation. At presence, ownership unbundling is the predominant form of unbundling in Europe. However, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011348069