PubData Leuphana Repository: Economies of Scope in European Railways: An Efficiency Analysis

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Ressourcentyp	Arbeitspapier
Titel	Economies of Scope in European Railways: An Efficiency Analysis
DOI	10.48548/pubdata-1214
Handle	20.500.14123/1277
Autor*in	Growitsch, Christian 12443357X Wetzel, Heike 0000-0002-3945-6318 1051421292
Abstract	In 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.
Sprache	Englisch
Schlagwörter	Efficiency; Vertical Integration; Railway Industry; Effizienz; Eisenbahn
Jahr der Veröffentlichung in PubData	2006
Art der Veröffentlichung	Erstveröffentlichung
Publikationsversion	Veröffentlichte Version
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung	2006-08-21
Entstehungskontext	Forschung
Veröffentlicht durch	Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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