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Global railway passenger transports – efficiency analysis from period of 1980-2004

Hilmola, Olli-Pekka - In: International Journal of Logistics Economics and … 2 (2009) 1, pp. 23-39

A number of different studies have been completed from the efficiency of developed countries and their passenger transportation operations. However, we have little understanding from the global performance of railway sector, and particularly from passenger segment. In this research work, we use...

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Leon Walras on Industrial Regulation: Railroads As Economic and Moral State Monopolies

Álvarez, Andrés - UN - RCE - CID - 2010

century. One of the main theoretical and applied debates which is still an issue today concerns natural monopolies. Railroads … provision of railroads and transportation.Walras´s point of view was developed with twofold argument of theoretical and a moral … economy. The case made in favor of the State intervention on Railroads industry considers altruistic motivations of human …

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The Infrastructure-Superstructure Distinction in the Railroad Industry and the Regulation of Natural Monopolies.

Numa, Guy - Université Paris-Dauphine

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Railroad redux

Fettig, David - In: The Region (2001) Dec, pp. 4-9

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Welfare Trade-Offs in US Rail Mergers

Ivaldi, Marc; McCullough, Gerard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Since the publication by Williamson (1968) of his seminal paper on antitrust there has been a growing recognition by regulators of the need to assess trade-offs between merger-related efficiency gains and merger-induced increases in market power. This paper addresses that need by presenting a...

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The Railroad’s Impact on Land Values in the Upper Great Plains at the Closing of the Frontier

Decker, Christopher S.; Flynn, David T. - EconWPA - 2004

independent variables in a regression on price per acre. This estimation gives us the expected positive impact of railroads on …

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Riding the rails: a look at light rail transit

Zaretsky, Adam - In: The Regional Economist (1994) Oct, pp. 4-9

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Update : Progress of Southeast rail corridor

Campbell, Doug - In: Econ Focus (2007) Sum, pp. 9-9

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The Union Pacific/Southern Pacific Rail Merger: A Retrospective on Merger Benefits

Breen, Denis A. - In: Review of Network Economics 3 (2004) 3, pp. 283-322

This retrospective case study of merger efficiencies focuses on the 1996 merger of two large, U.S. rail networks. Information on the public record permits some evaluation of pre-merger efficiency claims, and the weighing of those claims against regulatory and antitrust standards. Access to...

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Regulation of Freight Railroads in the Modern Era: 1970 - 2010

Darius W. Gaskins, Jr - In: Review of Network Economics 7 (2008) 4, pp. 561-572

The fundamental tension between the freight railroads' network economics and economic regulation has never been …

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