Größenvorteile im deutschen ÖSPV – Eine empirische Analyse

Karl-Hans Hartwig () and Raimund Scheffler ()
Additional contact information
Raimund Scheffler: Institute of Transport Economics, Muenster

No 13, Working Papers from Institute of Transport Economics, University of Muenster

Abstract: In this paper we present an efficiency analysis of bus transport companies in Germany. It is focused on the calculation of scale efficiencies in order to identify possible economies of sca-le in the German bus transport market. For this purpose, we apply data envelopment analy-sis (DEA). As DEA is a determintistic method, bootstrapping procedures are applied to test for global and individual returns to scale. We find that small bus transport companies achieve economies of scale by extending their size.

Keywords: bus transport; frontier analysis; DEA (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C14 L92 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2009-12
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wiwi.uni-muenster.de/ivm/sites/ivm/fil ... kussionspapier13.pdf First version, 2009 (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:mut:wpaper:13

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from Institute of Transport Economics, University of Muenster Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Birgit Rueschenschmidt ().