Returns to scale and market concentration among the largest survivors of deregulation in the US trucking industry

Applied Economics

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 101-110

  Giordano, James N ^a  

^a VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEREGULATION IMPACT; MARKET CONCENTRATION; MOTOR CARRIER ACT (1980); RETURNS TO SCALE; ROAD FREIGHT; TRUCKING INDUSTRY;

USA;

EID: 0030931184     PISSN: 00036846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/000368497327452     Document Type: Article

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