Análisis de la eficiencia en el transporte de mercancías por carretera en Europa

  1. Caro Vela, Mª Dolores 1
  2. Contreras Rubio, Ignacio 1
  1. 1 Departamento de Economía, Métodos Cuantitativos e Historia Económica Universidad Pablo de Olavide
Journal:
Anales de ASEPUMA

ISSN: 2171-892X

Year of publication: 2010

Issue: 18

Type: Article

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Abstract

In this paper the technical efficiency of road freight transport in the EU countries is evaluated for the period 2003-2007. The methodology considered is Data Envelopment Analysis and Malmquist productivity indices. The main results confirm that liberalization of the sector has facilitated the efficiency of services, although new forms of production suppose a worse performance of the most efficient countries in the considered period. The paper concludes that geographical location of countries determines in part the efficiency of the units. Hence,countries of Central and Eastern Europe that joined the EU in 2004, present good results in terms of technical efficiency but not in terms of scale, and confirm the emerging position in the transportation market.

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