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The success of deregulation in creating a viable private rail freight system in the ?U.S. since 1979 is relatively undisputed. Deregulation has proceeded in three ways: (i) eased rate setting restrictions; (ii) simplified merger applications and approval procedures; and (iii) relaxed route...
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We use county and individual-level data from 1850 and 1860 to examine the economic impact of gaining access to a railroad. Previous studies have found that rail access was positively correlated with the value of agricultural land at a point in time, and have interpreted this correlation as...
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Widely different approaches to rail reform are evident across countries and within Australia. Reforms have involved structural separation (both vertical and horizontal) and varying degrees of private sector involvement. Evidence from Australian experience suggests that no one size fits all. The...
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Over the course of the nineteenth century manufacturing in the United States shifted from artisan shop to factory production. At the same time United States experienced a quot;transportation revolutionquot;, a key component of which was the building of extensive railroad network. Using a newly...
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heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and … regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under …
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IV explores the implications of the analysis for a variety of issues relating to monopoly and public regulation, such as …, suffer a loss, that is not offset by gains to the monopolist. This is the "deadweight loss" from monopoly, and in … conventional analysis the only social cost of monopoly. The loss suffered by those who continue to buy the product at the higher …
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-established regulator faces a privately owned monopoly. It is sometimes forgotten that this model does not apply in many places where a … 20 years, analyzing its impact on consumers' welfare, the monopoly's profitability and its productivity. Though the …
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This paper reports on results obtained from the estimation of a rail cost function using a pooled-time series, cross section of Class I railroads for the period 1974-1986. An analysis is performed of short-run and long-run returns to scale, the extent of capital disequilibrium, and adjustments...
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Studies have shown a connection between finance and growth, but most do not consider how financial and real factors interact to put a virtuous cycle of economic development into motion. As the main transportation advance of the 19th century, railroads connected established commercial centers and...
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We investigate the relationships of bank failures and balance sheet conditions with measures of proximity to different forms of transportation in the United States over the period from 1830-1860. A series of hazard models and bank-level regressions indicate a systematic relationship between...
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