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Title: | Efficiency gains from port reform and the potential for yardstick competition: lessons from Mexico | Authors: | Estache, Antonio González Serrano, María Manuela Trujillo Castellano, Lourdes |
UNESCO Clasification: | 531212 Transportes y comunicaciones | Keywords: | Transportes frigoríficos Puertos |
Issue Date: | 2002 | Publisher: | 0305-750X | Journal: | World Development | Abstract: | This paper shows how measures of relative efficiency performance could promote yardstick competition between port infrastructure operators. The illustration is based on a study of the efficiency effects of the Mexican 1993 Port Reform. It covers 1996-99 and relies on a stochastic production frontier to show that Mexico's ports achieved 2.8-3.3% average annual efficiency gains since reform. The port-specific measures point to consistent leaders and laggards which would not all be identified by common partial productivity indicators. This information could be built into an explicit incentive-based regulatory regime aiming at promoting catch-up by laggards. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/47655 | ISSN: | 0305-750X | DOI: | 10.1016/S0305-750X(01)00129-2 | Source: | World Development[ISSN 0305-750X],v. 30, p. 545-560 |
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