. Farmers responded to the shrinking transportation wedge and rising revenue productivity by rapidly expanding the area under …

Productivity growth in Australia's railways through the 20th Century was neither smooth nor uniformly positive. It was …. This paper uses regression analysis to develop an understanding of the factors which drove productivity growth throughout …

, however, they need to remain competitive with other modes of transport, and this requires productivity growth. The more … early version of this database to calculate total factor productivity indices for Australia's railways, highlighting an … railways, are constructed. From an analysis of productivity growth through the century and its causes, the paper draws some …