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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Uniform service, uniform productivity?: regional efficiency of the Imperial German postal, telegraph, and telephone service |
Author: | Ploeckl, F. |
Citation: | Australian Economic History Review: an Asia-Pacific journal of economic, business and social history, 2016; 56(2):221-243 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Issue Date: | 2016 |
ISSN: | 0004-8992 1467-8446 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Florian Ploeckl |
Abstract: | Using the regional productivity of the Reichspost, the postal service of the German Empire, I investigate whether a public monopolist operates with uniform regional productivity. Using data envelopment analysis efficiency scores, we derive the relative productivity of the post, telegraph, and telephone sectors from1891 to 1908. Results show a fairly stable system with substantial raw productivity differences between postal districts, and that the expansion of the service offset technological productivity increases for the mail service. |
Keywords: | Information technology; productivity; public monopoly |
Rights: | © 2016 Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand and John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd |
DOI: | 10.1111/aehr.12099 |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12099 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 3 Economics publications |
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