Railway Reform Regulation of Freight Transport Markets

Railway Reform Regulation of Freight Transport Markets

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2001-01-25

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 928211273X

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This report examines the form regulation should take in rail freight markets to promote efficiency in railways and the wider economy.


Railway Reform

Railway Reform

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport Staff

Publisher:

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13:

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This report examines the form regulation should take in rail freight markets to promote efficiency in railways and the wider economy. It analyses issues of monopoly, scale economies, competition, mergers, ownership and the structure of the rail industry. Experience in North America, Australia, Japan, the European Union and countries from eastern and western Europe is reviewed. The need for regulation differs by market and, together with political constraints, this means that regulatory models can not be transferred wholesale from one continent to another. However, each region provides importa.


Railway Reform and Charges for the Use of Infrastructure

Railway Reform and Charges for the Use of Infrastructure

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2005-11-16

Total Pages: 134

ISBN-13: 9282103528

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This book explains how barriers to growth in rail freight transport across Europe can be overcome. It recommends a simple set of charges that create incentives for management and planning of train operations across national borders.


Handbook on Railway Regulation

Handbook on Railway Regulation

Author: Matthias Finger

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2020-09-25

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1789901782

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Taking a global approach, this insightful Handbook brings together leading researchers to provide a comprehensive overview of the state-of-the-art in railway regulation with a particular focus on countries that rely heavily on railways for transportation links. The Handbook also considers the most pressing issues for those working in and with railway systems, and outlines future trends in the development of rail globally.


Regulatory Reform of Railways in Russia

Regulatory Reform of Railways in Russia

Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2004-05-11

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9282123111

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In this report, some of the world's leading experts in rail regulation examine the restructuring of the sector, focusing on tariff reform and the introduction of competition in one of the world's largest rail networks.


Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region

Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region

Author: Takatoshi Ito

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2007-11-01

Total Pages: 483

ISBN-13: 0226386961

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Over the last twenty-five years, there has been an acceleration in the move from government regulation towards privatization. Governance, Regulation, and Privatization in the Asia-Pacific Region is the first thoroughgoing account of the relative success of the different approaches to privatization as undertaken in Korea, China, Australia, and Japan. In most contexts, privatization is expected to yield greater efficiency and cost effectiveness while avoiding the corruption and bloated budgets of government regulation or monopoly control. But broad-scale privatization, if ill designed, has also yielded its share of difficulties in East Asia. Privatization sometimes has created a vacuum in corporate governance for some of the region's most important industries and in some cases merely reinstated the monopoly-like configurations. The papers presented in this book discuss the experiences of privatization in several industries, including railroad and telecom, corporate governance problems, accounting issues, and challenges for the future in East Asian countries. The first section is theoretical in nature and proposes boundaries among government protection, market freedom, and shareholder expectations. The second part is constituted by country case studies, beginning with an analysis of both the Korean financial crisis that followed its 1997 law to privatize large, public sector corporations and the new ways Korean corporations finance themselves. Following is an evaluation of China's approach to privatization, with an in-depth look at the financial transitions of companies slated for initial public offering. Providing provocative examples of the methods of privatization in the Asia-Pacific region specifically, these papers will be of huge import to any economist or policymaker interested in transposing those successes for their own region.