Do Competition and Ownership Matter? Evidence from Local Public Transport in Europe

Andrea Boitani, Marcella Nicolini and Carlo Scarpa

No 09_11, Working Papers from SIET Società Italiana di Economia dei Trasporti e della Logistica

Abstract: This paper investigates how the ownership and the procedure for the selection of firms operating in the local public transport sector affect their productivity. In order to compare different institutional regimes, we carry out a comparative analysis of 72 companies operating in large European cities. This allows us to consider forms selected either through competitive tendering or negotiated procedures. The analysis of the data on 77 European firms over the period 1997-2006 indicates that firms operate under constant returns to scale. Retrieving the residuals we obtain a measure of total factor productivity, which we regress on firm and city characteristics. We find that when firms are totally or partially in public hands their productivity is lower. Moreover, firms selected through competitive tendering display higher total factor productivity. productivity.

Keywords: local public transport; public ownership; translog production function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 39 pages
Date: 2009
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