Competition and Industry Structure for International Rail Transportation

Marc Ivaldi, Guido Friebel and Jerome Pouyet

No 8491, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper investigates various options for the organization of the railway industry when network operators require the access to multiple national networks to provide international (freight or passenger) transport services. The EU rail system provides a framework for our analysis. Returns-to-scale and the intensity of competition are key to understanding the impact of vertical integration or separation between infrastructure and operation services within each country in the presence of international transport services. We also consider an option in which a transnational infrastructure manager is in charge of offering a coordinated access to the national networks. In our model, it turns out to be an optimal industry structure.

Keywords: Network access; Transport economics; Vertical separation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L14 L42 L51 L92 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com, nep-cse, nep-ind, nep-net and nep-ure
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