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dc.contributor.authorWetzel, Heikeen
dc.date.accessioned2008-11-06-
dc.date.accessioned2009-10-01T15:02:33Z-
dc.date.available2009-10-01T15:02:33Z-
dc.date.issued2008-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/28219-
dc.description.abstractThis paper analyzes the performance of the European railway sector in the period of deregulation (1990-2005). Using a stochastic frontier panel data model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity a multiple-output multipleinput distance function model is estimated in order to evaluate the sources of productivity growth: technological progress, technical efficiency change and scale effects. The results indicate that technology improvements were by far the most important driver of productivity growth, followed by gains in technical efficiency, and to a lesser extent by exploitation of scale economies. Overall, we find an average productivity growth of 39 per cent within the sample period.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aLeuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre |cLüneburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aWorking Paper Series in Economics |x101en
dc.subject.jelD24en
dc.subject.jelL51en
dc.subject.jelL92en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordEuropean railwaysen
dc.subject.keywordderegulationen
dc.subject.keywordstochastic frontier analysisen
dc.subject.keywordtotal factor productivityen
dc.titleProductivity growth in European railways: technological progress, efficiency change and scale effects-
dc.type|aWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn584532717en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen

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