2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Roles and Efficiency of Vertical Separation in Railway Industry
| Project/Area Number |
20530198
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Applied economics
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| Research Institution | Kobe University |
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Principal Investigator |
YANAGAWA Takashi Kobe University, 大学院・経済学研究科, 教授 (60247616)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
YOSHINO Ichiro 名古屋商科大学, 経済学部, 教授 (90267922)
HARIMAYA Kozo 立命館大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (90347732)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 産業組織論 |
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| Research Abstract |
First, we have found theoretically favorable effects of vertical separation and open access of the railway industry on the tariff and efficiency. Second, we were involved in the case studies of the railway industries in EU, United Kingdom and Germany to show the economic efficiency and problems such as infrastructure management and entry barriers induced by the vertical separation and open access due to the railway liberalization. Third, we investigated empirically the production efficiency of privatized and vertically separated British passenger train operating companies (TOCs). Also, we compared production efficiency of privatized TOCs separated from Japan National Railways with other Japanese private local TOCs.
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