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Intermodal and Intramodal Competition in Passenger Rail Transport
Ivaldi, Marc; Vibes, Catherine - Institut d'Économie Industrielle (IDEI), Toulouse … - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005767414
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High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition
Adler, Nicole; Nash, Chris; Pels, Eric - Tinbergen Institute - 2008
This paper develops a methodology to assess transport infrastructure investments and their effects on a Nash equilibria taking into account competition between multiple privatized transport operator types. The operators, including high-speed rail, hub and spoke legacy airlines and low cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137318
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Workers' earnings in the UK before and after privatisation: a study of five industries
DESSY, Orietta; FLORIO, Massimo - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2004
In this paper we offer new evidence on the impact of British privatisations on wages in five selected industries: gas, electricity, water supply, railways and air transport. For the above sectors we construct long time-series of different measures of labour earnings, spanning from 1970 to 2002,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005007413
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Japan
Høj, Jens; Wise, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth of productivity have been low in many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045937
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Intermodal and Intramodal Competition in Passenger Rail Transport
Ivaldi, Marc; Vibes, Catherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
The objective of the paper is to elaborate a simulation model to analyse inter and intra-modal competition in the transport industry, based on game theory models. In our setting, consumers choose a transport mode and an operator to travel on a given city-pair; operators strategically decide on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005656264
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The Benefits of Logistics Investments: Opportunities for Latin America and the Caribbean
Rodrigue, Jean-Paul - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
to underline the key dimensions behind the benefits of logistics investments. It particularly focuses on port … / hinterland supply chains in which the setting of logistics zones, transport and logistics corridors and inland ports provide a … salient example of the multiplying effects of transport infrastructure and freight logistics investments. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652997
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Addressing New Service Sector in WTO/FATs: Express Delivery and India
Mukherjee, Arpita; Pal, Parthapratim; Goswami, Ramneet - Indian Council for Research on International Economic …
The service sector is evolving. New services and new modes of delivering existingservices have increased the complexities of services negotiations in the WTO and inFTAs.The WTO negotiations focus on market access but FTAs tend to go beyond marketaccess to seeking regulatory commitments from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008763402
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High-Speed Rail & Air Transport Competition
Adler, Nicole; Nash, Chris; Pels, Eric - Tinbergen Instituut - 2008
This paper develops a methodology to assess transport infrastructure investments and their effects on a Nash equilibria taking into account competition between multiple privatized transport operator types. The operators, including high-speed rail, hub and spoke legacy airlines and low cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257086
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When It Comes to Container Port Efficiency, Are All Developing Regions Equal?
Suárez-Alemán, Ancor; Morales Sarriera, Javier; … - 2015
This paper develops a port productivity and efficiency analysis of all developing regions between 2000 and 2010, using both parametric and nonparametric approaches. From a unique dataset -our sample covers 70 developing countries, 203 ports, and 1,750 data points-, we carry out an analysis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314172
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Understanding intra-regional transport: Competition in road transportation between Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe
Vilakazi, Thando; Paelo, Anthea - 2017
Efficient transport links are critical to enhancing the integration of markets in Southern Africa. This paper assesses the structure of markets, competition, and prices and costs of road transportation between urban hubs in Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. Key findings are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011654039