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Konzessionsmodelle für Fernstraßen in Deutschland : Eine ökonomische Analyse der Risikoallokation beim F- und A-Modell

von Hirschhausen, Christian R.; Beckers, Thorsten - 2003

In diesem Beitrag wird die Risikoallokation bei Betreibermodellen für Bundesfernstraßen nach dem F- und A-Modell untersucht. Zunächst werden kurz die Defizite des traditionellen Modells der Herstellung und Bereitstellung von Fernstraßen in Deutschland dargestellt und die Struktur der beiden...

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Design of Regulatory Contracts – Example of the Urban Transport Industry

Piechucka, Joanna - 2017

The present article discusses economic issues related to the design of optimal regulatory contracts on the example of the urban public transport industry. It highlights the importance of the design of efficient regulatory contracts in the context of changes facing the urban transportation...

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Cost Efficiency and Endogenous Regulatory Choices : Evidence from the Transport Industry in France

Piechucka, Joanna - 2020

We study the impact of different regulatory designs on the cost efficiency of operators providing a public service, exploiting data from the French transport industry. The distinctive feature of the study is that it considers regulatory regimes as endogenously determined choices, explained by...

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Economic Benefit of Maximum Truck Weight Regulation Change for Estonian Forest Sector

Lukason, Oliver; Ukrainski, Kadri; Varblane, Urmas - 2012

limit regulation is causing the reduction of transportation costs for forest sector firms. Increase of the truck weight … to grow in the range from 0.7-4.6 % depending on the change of regulation from 44 to 60 tonnes, whereas in the most …

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Against the Stand-Alone-Cost Test in U.S. Freight Rail Regulation

Pittman, Russell W. - 2010

The stand-alone-cost test has become an expensive, extensive, and time-consuming part of the regulatory practice of the U.S. Surface Transportation Board in the performance of its statutory duty to protect "captive shippers" from monopoly rail rates. Worse, a close examination of the history of...

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Is Economic Regulation Possible? Arrow's Impossibility Theorem and the Management of Joint Use Infrastructure

Wills-Johnson, Nick - 2008

Economic regulation is portrayed as the objective application of clear economic theory to data in order to develop … appearance of objectivity only skin-deep? This paper argues that it is; that economic regulation is a form of social choice and … consequences of this result for economic regulation using railways as a case study, and charts some potential policy options in …

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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 …

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European railway deregulation: the influence of regulatory and environmental conditions on efficiency

Wetzel, Heike - 2008

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of regulatory and environmental conditions on technical efficiency of European railways. Using a panel data set of 31 railway firms from 22 European countries from 1994 to 2005, a multioutput distance function model, including regulatory and...

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Ein kohärenter Regulierungsrahmen für den Schienengüterverkehr in der Schweiz

Grotrian, Jobst; Jaag, Christian; Trinkner, Urs - Swiss Economics - 2011

Der Schweizer Schienengüterverkehr steht vor wesentlichen Herausforderungen. Zum einen sind die Anbieter einem starken intra- und intermodalen Wettbewerb ausgesetzt; zum anderen spiegeln die gesetzlichen Rahmenbedingungen vielfältige, sich teils widersprechende politische Anliegen im Bereich...

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Quality standards for passenger trains: Political majorities and environmental costs

Rothbauer, Julia; Sieg, Gernot - 2010

This study analyzes the minimum quality standard set by the European Union (EU) through Regulation 1371/2007 of Rail …

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