the effectiveness of the European railway deregulation process in enhancing efficiency and productivity in the European … regulatory conditions on efficiency and productivity. The first paper, ‘Testing for Economies of Scope in European Railways: An …. We find that for a majority of European railways economies of scope exist. The second paper, ‘Productivity Growth in …

, positively contribute to productivity of firms. While localization economies appear to be bound to the immediate neighborhood …

, scale economies and productivity from a panel of establishment data. The econometric model contains only a few, economically …-fixed capital and the presence of persistent differences in productivity between establishments. …