TRADITIONAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS of the theory of the firm has concentrated on single-
product firms. But, in reality, most businesses produce many products, and many regulatory …

In this article we estimate external costs for four representative types of freight trains. For
each type of freight train, we estimate three general types of external costs and compare …

This paper offers a review of the methodological aspects involved in the estimation of cost
functions for the transportation industries. Major advances are detected in the econometrics …

THE PROMINENCE of transportation eco-t nomics within the discipline has had an uneven
history. At the turn of the twentieth century, transportation economics featured some of the …

This paper focuses on productive efficiency in Swedish retail electricity distribution during
1970–1990 using hedonic output (s) constructed from physical outputs and their qualities …

This paper reviews major themes in the evolution of railroad economics over the past
century and a half. The earliest writings emphasized links between railroads and economic …

A multiproduct cost function for the regulated trucking industry is developed and estimated
that utilizes network variables as arguments in the cost function. Using a cross-section of …

An opportunity to compare economic performance under substantially different levels of
regulation is afforded by the differences in the regulatory environments of US and Canadian …

Efforts to reform regulation of the railroad industry are supported by a substantial body of
economic research which has described and measured the cost of the present regulatory …

Regulation, Organizations, and Politics examines the evolution of regulation at the Interstate
Commerce Commission (ICC). The ICC has probably had the most profound impact on any …