With Germany's nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial situation of the affected utilities in 2014, a major discourse on ensuring financial liability led to a redistribution of liabilities and finances, with the utilities remaining...

With the closure of the final six nuclear power plants, the commercial use of nuclear energy for electricity generation in Germany will come to an end in 2022. Due to the German power system's sufficient capacities-in 2020, the sector exported 20 terawatt hours (TWh), or about four percent of...

With Germany’s nuclear phase-out, 23 reactors need to be dismantled in the near future. Initiated by the dire financial situation of the affected utilities in 2014, a major discourse on ensuring financial liability led to a redistribution of liabilities and finances, with the utilities...

Este texto realiza un recorrido en el largo plazo sobre la trayectoria del ferrocarril en España, analizando aquellas cuestiones que han constituido la base del debate historiográfico, especialmente las referidas a las relaciones económicas, empresariales y territoriales, sin olvidar el papel...

Plans for the development of high speed railways lines (HSR) in Spain are widespread. At the beginning of 2010 four HSR lines were operating in routes where the air transport mode used to be dominant. In this paper we examine through econometric means the air carriers' reaction to these HSR...

This paper is an empirical application of the distance function to study the allocative efficiency of a regulated railway firm, RENFE, where the cost minimising hypothesis may be questioned. The distance function, which is the dual of the cost function, completely describes the technology and,...

This article carries out a systematic analysis of the components of the Spanish public urban and interurban transportation system, taking into account different urban areas. It aims at providing an overall image and, with this purpose, it sets the roles played by the various components in the...