Economies of scope in European railways : an efficiency analysis

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Economies of scope in European railways : an efficiency analysis

Growitsch, Christian / Wetzel, Heike

In the course of railway reforms at the end of the last century, European national governments, as well the EU Commission, decided to open markets and to separate railway networks from train operations. Vertically integrated railway companies argue that such a separation of infrastructure and operations would diminish the advantages of vertical integration and would therefore not be suitable to raise economic welfare. In this paper, we conduct a pan-European analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of scope associated with vertical integration ...

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Title :

Economies of scope in European railways : an efficiency analysis

Contributors:

Growitsch, Christian (author) / Wetzel, Heike (author)

Published in:

Working paper series in economics ; 29

Publication date :

2006

Size :

21 S.

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graph. Darst.
Literaturverz. S. 19 - 21
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Book

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Language :

English

Keywords :

Economics

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BKL:

83.72 Verkehrswirtschaft