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Only some commercial passenger rail markets in Europe have been liberalized so far. Service providers have access to … liberalization in 2012. The article describes the current scope of liberalisation and the present regulatory framework for example …
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The paper presents the results of a research on railway regulation and liberalisation in Italy, France, Germany and … descriptive. The regulatory frameworks are outlined and then assessed according to their implications on the liberalisation level … and on the effective market opening. The conclusions are that the actual level of liberalisation is still scarce and only …
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The Europeanisation of public services is frequently considered to have created pressure for Member States to progressively converge towards a new dominant organisational model, based on deregulation, de-integration and privatization. However, while in some sectors (eg. electricity,...
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>The pace and scale of liberalisation vary widely from one country and one industry to another, and in many countries there are …
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This study provides a detailed and easy-to read overview of the railway liberalisation in Belgium and the three … neighbouring countries. The European Union's liberalisation Directives are often complex and are implemented in very specific ways … liberalisation Directives in Belgium and its neighbouring countries - France, Germany and the Netherlands. There are considerable …
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This paper examines the determinants of truck accidents in the United States using a time series data set covering the period 1970-2001. Econometric models are developed and subjected to a set of specification error tests so as to increase the probability of selecting models which are...
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This 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 multiple input distance function model is estimated in order to evaluate the...
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In its first steps toward reform of its huge and hugely important railway system, the Russian Federation has begun corporate restructuring of a kind favored by many students of railway reform throughout the world: some kind of separation of the entity controlling the infrastructure from the...
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The Polish government is considering methods of the privatizing and possible restructuring of the Polish National Railway, PKP, that would improve the efficiency of the railroad while creating some form of competition in order to prevent monopoly pricing. Traditional intramodal competition is...
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Using data from a Bank of Italy survey, this paper analyzes the Italian taxi market and its recent changes. Local regulations are rather homogeneous, while there is a widespread disproportion, within municipal advisory committees, between the number of representatives of taxi drivers and that of...
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