Exploring the Effects of Competition for Railway Markets

Rafael Lalive and Armin Schmutzler

No 511, SOI - Working Papers from Socioeconomic Institute - University of Zurich

Abstract: This paper studies the effects of introducing competition for local passenger railway markets in the German state of Baden-W�rttemberg. We compare the evolution of the frequency of service on lines that were exposed to competition for the market and lines that were not. Our results suggest that competitive lines enjoyed a stronger growth of the frequency of service than non-competitive lines, even after controlling for various line characteristics that might have an independent influence on the frequency of service. Our results further suggest that the effects of competition may depend strongly on the operator and on characteristics of the line.

Keywords: competition for the market; liberalization; passenger railways; procurement auctions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D43 D44 R48 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 26 pages
Date: 2005-09, Revised 2007-04
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Published in International Journal of Industrial Organisation, 26, pp. 443-458, 2008

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