Public Enterprise Efficiency: The Case of the New York Canals
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Keywords
Cost efficiency; Erie canal; Public enterprise; R5; D24; N7; C1; H110; H4;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis
- D24 - Microeconomics - - Production and Organizations - - - Production; Cost; Capital; Capital, Total Factor, and Multifactor Productivity; Capacity
- N7 - Economic History - - Economic History: Transport, International and Domestic Trade, Energy, and Other Services
- C1 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General
- H4 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods
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