This article presents the results of the first stage of a wider research on adequateness of the strategies adopted by recently privatized firms of Brazil's railroad system that focused upon the largest of these firms, MRS Logistica S.A. One of the most significant results was the evidence...

The privatization of the rail network, which started in 1996, is the main motivation for this analysis of the recent performance and perspectives of the sector. The paper first presents an overview of the size and relative importance of the transport sector by mode. The operational and cost...

This article documents the impact of the Brazilian railway network on structural transformation between the late nineteenth and middle twentieth century. We exploit variation induced by geographic location, where municipalities near the least-cost routes were more likely to be connected to...