Railway (De)regulation: A European efficiency comparison

Economica

Volumn 77, Issue 305, 2010, Pages 77-91

  Friebel, Guido ^a   Ivaldi, Marc ^b   Vibes, Catherine ^c  

^a TOULOUSE SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (France)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c CEPR ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; MODELING; PANEL DATA; RAILWAY TRANSPORT;

EUROPE;

EID: 73349097891     PISSN: 00130427     EISSN: 14680335     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0335.2008.00739.x     Document Type: Article

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