Does liberalization of the railway industry lead to higher technical effectiveness

摘要: Abstract The European Commission places increasing pressure on EU member states and forces national governments to liberate railway transportation enable new operators enter the rail industry. From an economic perspective, liberalization should lead higher train performance result in increased passenger flow. Most research papers examine impact of reform by measuring undertaking's focus efficiency intermediate outputs such as passenger/freight kilometer. However, this paper aims estimate from view demand thus concentrates number passengers volume goods transported, i.e., factors that indicate ultimate success process. Therefore, our analysis, we focused technical effectiveness, which was estimated a data envelopment analysis (DEA). In next step, studied what determine effectiveness indicator, examined significance IBM's Liberalization Index adopted model.