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This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …
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This paper delves into the developmental trajectory and future prospects of China Railway (CR) Express, a containerized … railway freight service between the People's Republic of China (the PRC) and Europe, and examines the associated …
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(HSR) on firms' total factor productivity (TFP). The quasi-random location of the HSR station in the Italian city of Reggio … productivity. Overall results are robust to a large number of sensitivity checks and falsification tests. …
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The paper studies the regulatory design in an industry where the regulated downstream provider of services to final consumers purchases the necessary inputs from an upstream supplier. The model is closely inspired by the UK regulatory mechanism for the railway network. Its philosophy is one of...
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The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of regulatory and environmental conditions on technical efficiency of European railways. Using a panel data set of 31 railway firms from 22 European countries from 1994 to 2005, a multioutput distance function model, including regulatory and...
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Rail cost function analysis has been a popular topic in the (empirical) economics literature over the past decades. Most studies find increasing returns to density for rail companies. The results can, however, be quite diverse. Results for the Dutch National Railway company (NS), for instance,...
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Im Rahmen der Novellierung des EEG sehen sich Ausmaß und Reichweite der Begünstigungen im Rahmen der sog. Besonderen Ausgleichsregelung (BesAR) des EEG schwerwiegender Kritik ausgesetzt und sind zugleich Gegenstand beihilferechtlicher Überprüfung. Nachfolgend werden die...
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