Many European countries have sought to increase the efficiency of national railroad companies through a range of … network to third parties. To estimate the effects of reforms on railroad efficiency, we investigate a new World Bank panel … dataset that covers many EU countries over a period of 20 years. We compare the passenger traffic efficiency of national …

industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across … industrial sectors in each country. We find strong evidence of a positive relationship between firm technical efficiency levels … between firm efficiency and size is also found to be positive, suggesting big industrial firms in the former planned economies …

market economy. It is widely believed that competition has a positive effect on efficiency, but the theoretical and empirical … support is quite scarce. The objective of this paper is to investigate the link between competition and efficiency for the … production functions indicate a gradual improvement in efficiency and a shift from decreasing to increasing returns to scale due …

shows that taxpayers are the main losers as subsidies are still needed. There are also serious efficiency-equity trade …

Using a stochastic frontier model and a comprehensive dataset, we study factors that affect corporate efficiency in … efficiency, and (iii) high competition is less conductive to efficiency than moderate or low competition. In terms of ownership …, we find that (iv) efficiency increases when a majority owner must deal with minority shareholders and that (v) domestic …