European railways have been reorganized to allow for market competition. Thus, train
services have been vertically separated from infrastructure management which allows …

It is about 20 years since the rail reform process in Europe began with the separation of
infrastructure from operations in Sweden. This paper reviews the entire process, examining …

Measuring the performance of railway undertakings is inevitably becoming a prerequisite for
their survival on the market in today's dynamic and highly turbulent environment. Railway …

This paper examines the importance of competition in innovation and the growth of firms. We
make use of the large-scale natural experiment of the shift from an economic system without …

State-owned enterprises make up roughly 10 percent of the world economy, yet they are
woefully understudied. This handbook offers the first synthesis of the topic since the 1980s …

With economic and social development, the demand for railway transport is increasing, and
improving its efficiency is essential for sustainable growth of the sector worldwide. This study …

In this paper, we conduct a pan-European efficiency analysis to investigate the performance
of European railways with a particular focus on economies of vertical integration. We test the …

The processes of vertical and horizontal separation within the railway sector are relatively
recent in many European countries, and as a result, little analytical research has been …

Regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil is facing a great deal of debate regarding the
government level at which conceding authority should reside and how private operators can …

Energy is crucial to economic development, but its production usually has a negative impact
on the environment. This ambivalence leads to the need for methods to improve energy …