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Resource typeWorking Paper
Title(s)Economies of Scope in European Railways: An Efficiency Analysis
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1214
Handle20.500.14123/1277
CreatorGrowitsch, Christian  12443357X
Wetzel, Heike  0000-0002-3945-6318  1051421292
AbstractIn the course of railway reforms at the end of the last century, European national governments, as well the EU Commission, decided to open markets and to separate railway networks from train operations. Vertically integrated railway companies argue that such a separation of infrastructure and operations would diminish the advantages of vertical integration and would therefore not be suitable to raise economic welfare. In this paper, we conduct a pan-European analysis to investigate the performance of European railways with a particular focus on economies of scope associated with vertical integration. We test the hypothesis that integrated railways realize economies of joint production and, thus, produce railway services on a higher level of e±ciency. To determine whether joint or separate production is more e±cient we apply an innovative Data Envelopment Analysis super-e±ciency bootstrapping model which relates the e±ciency for integrated production to a virtual reference set consisting of the separated production technology and which is applicable to other network industries as energy and telecommunication as well. Our ¯ndings are that for a majority of European Railway companies economies of scope exist.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsEfficiency; Vertical Integration; Railway Industry; Effizienz; Eisenbahn
Year of publication in PubData2006
Publishing typeFirst publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2006-08-21
Creation contextResearch
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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