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

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...

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Data envelopment analysis
Economic efficiency
Economies of scale
Efficiency
Europe
Exact sciences and technology
Ground, air and sea transportation, marine construction
Growth rate
Malmquist index
Productivity
Railway networks
Railway transport
Railway transportation and traffic
railways
Statistical analysis
technical changes
Technological change
Transport economics
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