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Network unbundling and flawed coordination : lessons from electricity and railways

Brunekreeft, Gert - 2014

coordination. This paper examines three persistent sources of flawed coordination: 1) a regulation versus unbundling dilemma, 2 …

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Regulated Versus Negotiated Access Pricing in Vertically Separated Railway Systems : Online Appendix

Besanko, David - 2019

This paper studies access pricing under three regimes: regulated access (VSR), negotiated access with discriminatory pricing (VSD) and negotiated access with non-discriminatory pricing (VSN). We compare each regime along three metrics: network quality, consumer surplus, and social welfare. To do...

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Liberalization of Pakistan's National Rail Transport System - Establishing a Competitive Regulatory Framework for Long Term Sustainable Growth

Javed, Syed Umair - 2013

The dissertation attempts to see whether liberalizing Pakistan’s national rail transport system will enable the latter to grow sustainably. First an assessment of existing literature on the subject was conducted. Then Pakistan’s national rail transport system is studied in a multi-facet...

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Processes, Information and Accounting Gaps in the Regulation of Argentina's Private Railways

Estache, Antonio; Campos, Javier; Trujillo, Lourdes - 2002

Almost a decade after Argentina began privatizing its railways, resolution of the conflicts between regulators, users and operators continues to take longer, and to be more difficult than expected. This paper shows that many of these conflicts arose because there are no rule of interactions...

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Railway (De)Regulation : A European Efficiency Comparison

Friebel, Guido; Ivaldi, Marc; Vibes, Catherine - 2005

Many European countries have sought to increase the efficiency of national railroad companies through a range of reforms: separating infrastructure and operations, creating independent regulatory institutions and providing access to the network to third parties. To estimate the effects of...

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The Costs and Benefits of Early Regulation of the Railroads

Zerbe, Richard O. - 2022

The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) is a classic example of regulation, and the origins and operation of this … agency have been much analyzed. These have been variously described as examples of public interest regulation, capture … regulation, and what I have called predatory regulation. By predatory regulation I mean that the agency (or law) is created …

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Interchanging parts : productive railroad cooperation in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Glock, Judge - In: Essays in economic & business history : the journal of … 42 (2024) 2, pp. 120-132

Although many economic and business historians have examined how American railroads colluded to raise rates or limit service, they have paid less attention to the many ways railroads cooperated to exchange cars and freight between companies and build needed interconnections. This article...

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Competition Effects in a Liberalized Railway Market

Lang, Markus - 2014

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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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...

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Competition of pricing of essential inputs : the case of access charges for the use of the Italian rail infrastucture

Arrigo, Ugo; Di Foggia, Giacomo - In: UTMS journal of economics / University of Tourism and … 4 (2013) 3, pp. 295-307

This paper explores the access charge for the use of the Italian rail infrastructure. Access problems arise when the provision of a complete service to end users requires the combination of two or more inputs, one of which is non-competitive (OECD, 2004). It is a well-known fact that excessive...

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