The contributions of technical and allocative efficiency to the economic performance of European railways

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the relative contributions of allocative and technical efficiency to the productivity performance of European railways over the period 1972 to 1999. A stochastic frontier approach is used to analyse the cost structure of the railway industry. We estimate...

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Main Author: António Couto (author)
Other Authors: Daniel J. Graham (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2008
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/95124
Country:Portugal
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