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Regulatory Reform in Road Freight and Retail Distribution
Boylaud, Olivier - 2000
The purpose of this paper is to analyse regulatory developments in the road freight and retail distribution industries of OECD Member countries. For each industry, the analysis is divided into four parts. First, structural developments in the industry are outlined. Second, the main features of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446012
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Liberalization of Pakistan's National Rail Transport System - Establishing a Competitive Regulatory Framework for Long Term Sustainable Growth
Javed, Syed Umair - 2013
The dissertation attempts to see whether liberalizing Pakistan’s national rail transport system will enable the latter to grow sustainably. First an assessment of existing literature on the subject was conducted. Then Pakistan’s national rail transport system is studied in a multi-facet...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014161007
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Railways Reform and Electricity Reform in Russia, and the Role of the Ministry for Antimonopoly Policy
Pittman, Russell W. - 2003
The Russian Federation is in the process of making major structural changes to its railway and electricity sectors. Both sectors will be at least partly vertically disintegrated, with the aim of creating competition in the "upstream" sector while maintaining state ownership and control of the...
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Regulatory Reform : Lessons for Korea
Pittman, Russell W. - 2003
"Regulatory reform" once meant either "alternatives to rate-of-return regulation" or "the advantages of privatization". Now that a broad consensus has been reached on each of these two topics, at least among economists, one subject that has moved to center stage is "vertical restructuring". Many...
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Motor Bus Deregulation and the Gender Wage Gap: A Test of the Becker Hypothesis
Schwarz-Miller, Ann; Talley, Wayne IL - In: Eastern Economic Journal 26 (2000) 2, pp. 145-156
findings provide strong support for the hypothesis that motor bus deregulation, by creating an increasingly competitive … status of unionized white female drivers relative to white males improved significantly subsequent to deregulation, with …
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The Determinants of Truck Accidents in the United States
Loeb, Peter D.; Clarke, William A. - Department of Economics, Rutgers University-Newark - 2005
accidents. However, deregulation of the trucking industry did not have a statistically significant adverse effect on these …
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A time series analysis of wages in deregulated industries: A study of motor carriage and rail
Monaco, Kristen; Brooks, Taggert J.; Bitzan, John - In: Journal of Applied Economics IX (2006) May, pp. 105-118
Using time series techniques, we contrast the impact of deregulation in trucking and rail labor markets. During … rail wages had a stable, deterministic relationship prior to deregulation. After deregulation, however, the mean trucking … deregulation’s negative impact on trucking wages was nondiscrete and occurred primarily between 1980 and 1984. …
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Cost efficiency and subsidization in German local public bus transit
Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - 2010
Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators' performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost...
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Cost Efficiency and Subsidization in German Local Public Bus Transit
Nieswand, Maria; Walter, Matthias - 2010
Subsidies are considered important means to facilitate the provision of public transit, yet the empirical evidence implies that they can have harming effects on costs and possibly also on operators' performance. This paper examines the impacts of deficit-balancing subsidies on the cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014044649
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Equivalence between Cost and Production Functions by the Mizutani Cost Functons to Different Industrie Structures : What Can We Learn?
Da Silva, Francisco Gildemir Ferreira - 2021
The duality between cost and production function can be a key point to explore regulation process in Agent-Principal model because the Principal observes outputs in inputs and has asymmetric information about the cost by the Agent. This paper investigates the properties of production functions...
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