This article analyses the behaviour of the functions of importing and exporting goods by maritime transport in Spain during the period 1994.I–1998.IV. Cointegration techniques are used in the estimations to obtain long-term price and income elasticities. These estimations can be used to assess...

Because ports are conceived and designed mainly to be the transfer point of various types of freight, passengers tend to be forgotten in the analysis of port costs. In this paper first we investigate the importance of passengers in port infrastructure costs by means of a multi-output cost...

This paper analyses the evolution of total factor productivity and its decomposition between 1986 and 2005 in the Spanish port authorities using a parametric distance function approach. During this period, the Spanish port authorities experienced three important regulatory changes. The results...