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Título: Econometric estimation of scale and scope economies within the Port Sector: A review
Autores/as: Tovar de la Fe, Beatriz Erasmi 
Jara-Díaz, Sergio
Trujillo Castellano, Lourdes 
Clasificación UNESCO: 531212 Transportes y comunicaciones
Palabras clave: Puertos
Transporte marítimo
Fecha de publicación: 2007
Editor/a: 0308-8839
Publicación seriada: Maritime Policy and Management 
Resumen: Seaports provide multiple services to ships, cargo and passengers. The size of the port and type of service they offer are two key elements when deciding whether competition is feasible and how to promote it or, conversely, regulation is needed. Analysing this requires a profound knowledge of the cost structure of the activity involved. This means not only knowing total costs for different volumes of aggregated traffic, but also the behaviour of costs when part of the bundle is produced, i.e. when the mix changes. The optimal organization of the industry can be studied by means of cost and production functions. This paper offers a review of the relatively scarce literature about econometric ports' cost structure, and highlights the role of the multioutput approach as the correct one because it allows the calculation of key cost indicators (economies of scale, scope and so forth) to determine the optimal port industrial structure for a given forecast of demand (traffic mix and volume).
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/43273
ISSN: 0308-8839
DOI: 10.1080/03088830701342932
Fuente: Maritime Policy and Management[ISSN 0308-8839],v. 34, p. 203-223
Colección:Reseña
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