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 … data set that covers many EU countries over a period of 20 years. We compare the passenger traffic efficiency of national …

efficiency …

This paper conducts an empirical analysis of the relationship between privatization and regulation drawing on data from … a wide sample of European airports. We find that privatization promotes a shift from basic regulation to a situation of … more detailed or non-regulation, depending on the specific characteristics of the privatization process and on the type of …

socially superior depends on the extent of efficiency gains and regulation, as well as the regulatory forms. Full privatization …This paper examines forms of airport regulation and privatization, taking into account of behavior of public … welfare than partial privatization. However, a full privatization without regulation yields a monopoly and related distortions …

in terms of allocative efficiency and congestion management, lending some support to a non for profit organization scheme …

The paper uses a data base on regulation, market structure and performance in the air passenger transportation industry …, to analyse the links among liberalisation, private ownership, competition, efficiency and airfares at national and route …

The paper uses a data base on regulation, market structure and performance in the air passenger transportation industry …, to analyse the links among liberalisation, private ownership, competition, efficiency and airfares at national and route …-level characteristics, cross-country and cross-route regressions show that i) productive efficiency increases and fares decline when …