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This dataset is an unbalanced panel of 50 Swiss railway companies over the period 1985-1997.
A data frame with 605 observations on the following 42 variables.
Firm identification.
Year identification.
Number of years observed.
Number of stops in network.
Network length (in meters).
Dummy variable for railroads with narrow track.
Dummy variable for ‘rack rail’ in network.
Dummy variable for network with tunnels over 300 meters on average.
Time indicator, first year = 0.
Passenger output – passenger km.
Freight output – ton km.
Total cost (1,000 Swiss franc).
Labor price.
Electricity price.
Capital price.
1 for railroads with curvy tracks.
Log of
CT
/PE
.
Log of Q2
.
Log of
Q3
.
Log of NETWORK
/1000.
Log of
PL
/PE
.
Log of PE
.
Log of
PK
/PE
.
Log of STOPS
.
Mean
of LNQ2
.
Mean of LNQ3
.
Mean of
LNNET
.
Mean of LNPL
.
Mean of
LNPK
.
Mean of LNSTOP
.
The dataset is extracted from the annual reports of the Swiss Federal Office of Statistics on public transport companies and has been used in Farsi et al. (2005).
https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~wgreene/Text/Edition7/tablelist8new.htm
Farsi, M., M. Filippini, and W. Greene. 2005. Efficiency measurement in network industries: Application to the Swiss railway companies. Journal of Regulatory Economics, 28:69–90.
str(swissrailways)
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