Productivity, efficiency and technical change in the European railways: A non-parametric approach

被引：77

作者：

Cantos, P ^{[1
]}

Pastor, JM ^{[1
]}

Serrano, L ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Valencia, Dept Anal Econ, Valencia 46022, Spain

来源：

TRANSPORTATION | 1999年 / 26卷 / 04期

关键词：

efficiency; Malmquist index; productivity; railways; technical changes;

D O I：

10.1023/A:1005127513206

中图分类号：

TU [建筑科学];

学科分类号：

0813 ;

摘要：

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the evolution of productivity in the European railways in the period 1970--95. We use a non-parametric approach that enables changes in productivity to be broken down into variations in efficiency and technical change. The results indicate that the productivity growth is concentrated in the last period (1985--95), when the majority of the companies undertook processes of reforms. This increase in productivity is mainly due to technical progress. We also analyse the determinants of efficiency and, unlike other papers, the technical change, finding that the greater the degree of autonomy and financial independence, the higher the efficiency levels and technical change.

引用

页码：337 / 357

页数：21

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