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Railroad Costs, Returns to Scale, and Excess Capacity

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  1. Talley, Wayne K. & Ng, ManWo & Marsillac, Erika, 2014. "Port service chains and port performance evaluation," Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Elsevier, vol. 69(C), pages 236-247.
  2. James Uguccioni, 2016. "Firm-level Total Factor Productivity Growth: Canadian Freight Railways, 1986 to 2009," CSLS Research Reports 2016-08, Centre for the Study of Living Standards.
  3. M. Ishaq Nadiri & Mark Schankerman, 1980. "Variable Cost Functions and the Rate of Return to Quasi-Fixed Factors: An Application to R and D in the Bell System," NBER Working Papers 0597, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Bereskin, C. Gregory, 2001. "Estimation of cost effects for potential trans-continental railroad mergers," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 6(1), pages 97-120, January.
  5. Betancor, Ofelia & Carmona, Miguel & Macário, Rosário & Nash, Chris, 2005. "Operating Costs," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(1), pages 85-124, January.
  6. Bitzan, John D., 1997. "Railroad Cost Considerations and the Benefits/Costs of Mergers," MPC Reports 231799, North Dakota State University, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute.
  7. Müller, Gernot, 2006. "Zur Ökonomie von Trassenpreissystemen," WIK Discussion Papers 279, WIK Wissenschaftliches Institut für Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsdienste GmbH.
  8. Andersson, Mats, 2007. "Fixed Effects Estimation of Marginal Railway Infrastructure Costs in Sweden," Working Papers 2007:11, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute (VTI).
  9. Allen, W. Bruce, 1976. "Some Observations on Improving Railroad Productivity," Transportation Research Forum Proceedings 1970s 318566, Transportation Research Forum.
  10. McBride, Mark E., 1982. "Economic Costs, railway costs and the uniform rail costing system," Transportation Research Forum Proceedings 1980s 311530, Transportation Research Forum.
  11. Christopher A. Vellturo & Ernst R. Berndt & Ann F. Friedlaender & Judy Shaw‐Er Wang Chiang & Mark H. Showalter, 1992. "Deregulation, Mergers, and Cost Savingsin Class I U.S. Railroads, 1974‐1986," Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 1(2), pages 339-369, June.
  12. William Dougan, 1984. "Railway abandonments, cross-subsidies, and the theory of regulation," Public Choice, Springer, vol. 44(2), pages 297-305, January.
  13. Richard C. Levin, 1981. "Regulation, Barriers to Exit, and the Investment Behavior of Railroads," NBER Chapters, in: Studies in Public Regulation, pages 181-230, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  14. Emmanuel, Bougna Tchofo & Crozet, Yves, 2014. "Beyond the “bundling vs unbundling” controversy: What is at stake for the French railway?," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 48(C), pages 393-400.
  15. Bitzan, John & Peoples, James, 2016. "A comparative analysis of cost change for low-cost, full-service, and other carriers in the US airline industry," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 56(C), pages 25-41.
  16. Andreas Andrikopoulos & John Loizides, 1998. "Cost structure and productivity growth in European railway systems," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 30(12), pages 1625-1639.
  17. Bitzan, John D & Keeler, Theodore E, 2007. "Economies of Density and Regulatory Change in the U.S. Railroad Freight Industry," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 50(1), pages 157-179, February.
  18. John Bitzan & Wesley Wilson, 2007. "Industry costs and consolidation: efficiency gains and mergers in the U.S. railroad industry," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 30(2), pages 81-105, March.
  19. Yu, Kemei & Wu, Jianhong & Wang, Kun & Zhang, Anming & Zheng, Shiyuan & Wang, Yixiao & Li, Hongchang, 2023. "Restructuring Chinese railways from a cost-efficient perspective—A hedonic cost function analysis," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 177(C).
  20. H. Kim, 1999. "Economic Capacity Utilization and its Determinants: Theory and Evidence," Review of Industrial Organization, Springer;The Industrial Organization Society, vol. 15(4), pages 321-339, December.
  21. Waters II, William G., 2007. "Evolution of Railroad Economics," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 11-67, January.
  22. Yves Croissant & William Roy & Joan Canton, 2013. "Reducing urban public transport costs by tendering lots: a panel data estimation," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 45(26), pages 3711-3722, September.
  23. Soltwedel, Rüdiger & Busch, Axel & Groß, Alexander & Laaser, Claus-Friedrich, 1987. "Zur staatlichen Marktregulierung in der Bundesrepublik," Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy 1085, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
  24. Sean Ennis & Michael Schoenbaum & Theodore Keeler, 2000. "Optimal prices and costs for hospitals with excess bed capacity," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(9), pages 1201-1212.
  25. German, H. Wade & Babcock, Michael W., 1991. "How Can Railroads Recapture Lost Market Share?," Transportation Research Forum Proceedings 1990s 319055, Transportation Research Forum.
  26. Chris Nash, 2011. "Competition and Regulation in Rail Transport," Chapters, in: André de Palma & Robin Lindsey & Emile Quinet & Roger Vickerman (ed.), A Handbook of Transport Economics, chapter 33, Edward Elgar Publishing.
  27. Bitzan, John D. & Wilson, Wesley W., 2007. "A Hedonic Cost Function Approach to Estimating Railroad Costs," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 20(1), pages 69-95, January.
  28. Link, Heike & Nilsson, Jan-Eric, 2005. "Infrastructure," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(1), pages 49-83, January.
  29. Gaynor, Martin & Anderson, Gerard F., 1995. "Uncertain demand, the structure of hospital costs, and the cost of empty hospital beds," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 14(3), pages 291-317, August.
  30. Bereskin, C.Gregory, 2007. "Railroad Capital Stock Changes in the Post-Deregulation Period," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Transportation Research Forum, vol. 46(1).
  31. Sergio Jara & Cristian Raggio, 1990. "Análisis Estadístico de Costos Ferroviarios en un Ambiente Políticamente Cambiante," Latin American Journal of Economics-formerly Cuadernos de Economía, Instituto de Economía. Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile., vol. 27(80), pages 17-30.
  32. Centre for the Study of Living Standards, 2012. "The Impact of Information and Communication Technology on the Productivity of the Canadian Transportation System: A Macroeconomic Approach for the Air and Rail Sectors," CSLS Research Reports 2012-07, Centre for the Study of Living Standards.
  33. James Uguccioni, 2016. "Estimating Total Factor Productivity Growth: Canadian Freight Railways, 1986 to 2009," International Productivity Monitor, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, vol. 30, pages 77-97, Spring.
  34. Yinger, John, 2015. "Hedonic markets and sorting equilibria: Bid-function envelopes for public services and neighborhood amenities," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 86(C), pages 9-25.
  35. Siew Hoon Lim & C.A. Knox Lovell, 2009. "Profit and productivity of US Class I railroads," Managerial and Decision Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 30(7), pages 423-442.
  36. John D. Bitzan & Theodore E. Keeler, 2003. "Productivity Growth and Some of Its Determinants in the Deregulated U.S. Railroad Industry," Southern Economic Journal, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 70(2), pages 232-253, October.
  37. Talvitie, Antti, 2018. "Jules Dupuit and benefit-cost analysis: Making past to be the present," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 70(C), pages 14-21.
  38. Bitzan, John, 2000. "Railroad Cost Conditions: Implications for Policy," UGPTI Department Publication 231804, North Dakota State University, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute.
  39. Lee, Tenpao & Baumel, C. Phillip, 1987. "The Cost Structure of the U.S. Railroad Industry Under Deregulation," Journal of the Transportation Research Forum, Transportation Research Forum, vol. 28(1).
  40. Andersson, Mats, 2006. "Marginal railway infrastructure cost estimates in the presence of unobserved effects," Working Papers 2006:6, Swedish National Road & Transport Research Institute (VTI).
  41. Ripplinger, David G. & Bitzan, John D., 2018. "The cost structure of transit in small urban and rural U.S. communities," Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 176-189.
  42. Andersson, Mats, 2011. "Marginal cost of railway infrastructure wear and tear for freight and passenger trains in Sweden," European Transport \ Trasporti Europei, ISTIEE, Institute for the Study of Transport within the European Economic Integration, issue 48, pages 3-23.
  43. Bitzan, John D. & Karanki, Fecri, 2022. "Costs, density economies, and differential pricing in the U.S. railroad industry," Transport Policy, Elsevier, vol. 119(C), pages 67-77.
  44. Anupriya, & Graham, Daniel J. & Carbo, Jose M. & Anderson, Richard J. & Bansal, Prateek, 2020. "Understanding the costs of urban rail transport operations," Transportation Research Part B: Methodological, Elsevier, vol. 138(C), pages 292-316.
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