Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/28204
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 86
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
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 environmental factors, is estimated using stochastic frontier analysis. The results obtained indicate positive and negative efficiency effects of different regulatory reforms. Furthermore, estimating models with and without regulatory and environmental factors clearly indicates that the omission of environmental factors, such as network density, substantially changes parameter estimates and, hence, leads to biased estimation results.
Subjects: 
European railways
technical efficiency
stochastic frontier analysis
JEL: 
L92
L51
L22
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
569.97 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.