Adrian T. Moore’s research while affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles and other places

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Publications (17)


Schedule Jockeying and Route Swamping: Bus Markets in Britain Need Kerb Rights
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June 2008

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Economic Affairs

Daniel B. Klein

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Adrian T. Moore

The experience of British bus deregulation has resulted in less on-the-road competition than anticipated, and a high degree of industry concentration We argue that the specific form of deregulation in Britain has created a property rights problem in the cultivation of passenger congregations at the kerb. The result has been schedule jockeying and route swamping. From a property rights perspective, the disappointing results can be seen as a commons problem. A nuanced approach to property rights at bus stops, permitting scheduled service to appropriate its investment in cultivating passenger congregations, and allowing freewheeling jitneys to compete on the route, could bring the benefits that many had expected from deregulation.


Curb Rights Eliciting Competition and Entrepreneurship in Urban Transit

December 2003

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SSRN Electronic Journal

Urban transit in the United States has long been dominated by government ownership and regulation, and has been declining steadily in ridership and productivity (APTA 1995). An economist-cum-policy maker would seek to inject competition and entrepreneurship into the sector by privatizing it. The two types of privitization often advocated are contracting out and free competition (Department of Transportation 1984; Lave 1985; Gomez-Ibanez and Meyer 1993). Experience has shown, however, that each approach has serious shortcomnings.


Table 1 Scope of Comparison 
Table 2 Inputs and outputs used in the DEA calculations for each service
Table 4 Efficiency rankings by service (including the number of cities with data)
Table 5 List of cities by region and by overall efficiency ranks 
Table 7 Full regression (Tobit) results (N=46) 

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Putting Out The Trash Measuring Municipal Service Efficiency in U.S. Cities
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September 2003

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Urban Affairs Review

There is a considerable literature describing the performance of municipal services that often uses imperfect or partial measures of efficiency. Data envelopment analysis (DEA) has emerged as an effective tool for measuring the relative efficiency of public service provision. This paper uses DEA to measure the relative efficiency of 11 municipal services in 46 of the largest cities in the United States over a period of 6 years. In addition, this information is used to explore efficiency differences between cities and services and provide input into a statistical analysis to explore factors that may explain differences in efficiency between cities. Finally, we discuss municipal governments' use of performance measures and problems with collecting municipal data for benchmarking.

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Curb Rights: Eliciting Competition and Entrepreneurship in Urban Transit

February 2002

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2 Citations

This intriguing collection is designed to show how economists can play a more active role in designing and directing the nation's social institutions. By taking the task of political economy seriously, the contributors (including some of today's most distinguished economists) reveal the power of economic thought to offer innovative solutions to some of the most difficult problems facing society today. By creating markets where none existed before, the authors propose efficient, reliable, and profitable improvements to current systems of health insurance, financial markets, human organ distribution, judicial practice, bankruptcy and securities regulation, patenting, and transportation. Written in the entrepreneurial spirit, these essays show economics to be an ambitious, dynamic, and far-from-dismal science.








Citations (10)


... But as publicly provided, demand-responsive services became one of the main ways agencies fulfilled the ADA's mandate, for many observers the term paratransit began to take on that meaning (Teal 2016). As the understanding of paratransit narrowed, more studies focused on the economics and business models of ADA paratransit rather than general-public DRT, whether publicly or privately operated (Klein et al. 1997). ...

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Private Transit: Existing Services and Emerging Directions
Curb Rights: A Foundation for Free Enterprise in Urban Transit
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  • October 1997

Southern Economic Journal

... It will be based on the result from the need analysis. This is to ensure the right amount of right people doing the right job at the right time (Segal, Moore & Blair, 2003). Consequently, the goals and aims of an organization will be achieved.Manpower will be decentralized to other health facilities. ...

GETTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE FOR THE RIGHT JOB: SOLVING HUMAN CAPITAL CHALLENGES

... These include Central Falls, Rhode Island, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Jefferson County, Alabama, and more recently and perhaps infamously, the city of Detroit. However, California has seen the most bankruptcy filings, is the state with the second worst credit rating in the nation and is where the debt almost trebled in the 6 years prior to the financial crisis (Summers and Randazzo, 2008). It is to this state that the paper now turns. ...

D rowning in Debt : b on D Measures threaten California's a lrea D y Pre C arious Debt situation
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... A relevant share of the literature focused on assessing the comparative efficiency of MWMSs through DEA considers efficiency scores as space invariant (see for example Boetti et al., 2012;Bosch, Pedraja, and Suárez-Pandiello 2000;Carvalho and Marques 2011;García-Sánchez 2008;Rogge and De Jaeger 2013;Sarra, Mazzocchitti, and Rapposelli 2017;Segal, Moore, and Nolan 2002;Simões, De Witte, and Marques 2010). However, this approach (as already noted) seems to be quite questionable, especially when the analysis is carried out with the purpose of influencing and designing local policies. ...

California Competitive Cities: A Report Card on Efficiency in Service Delivery in California's Largest Cities

... Johnson, McCormally, & Moore, 2002;Forrer, Kee, & Zhang, 2002, Ryan and Menezess, 2014), 2) Economic & Technical Aspect(van Ham & Koppenjan, 2001) present from fair and transparent tendering(Ryan and Menezess, 2014), the private sector's ability to comply with the requirement(Tuan Hai et al., 2022; Liu, Wang, and Wilkinson 2016) 3) Law and Politics Aspect such as positive legal frameworks that support a climate of investment. It could be policies to simplify the investment process and incentives to attract investors (Ismail 2013, Tuan Hai et al., 2022; Maramis 2018; Estache and Saussier 2014; Hwang, Zhao and Gay 2013) 4) Social Issue including community around airport and passengers related to an acceptable level of user charges (Ng, Wong and Wong 2012) 5) Public-sector competence (government) particularly capability person in charge as PJPK and team. ...

Long-Term Contracting for Water and Wastewater Services
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  • January 2002

... Government officials, who consider privatization, should be aware of the potential pitfalls of privatization and of the objections that opponents of privatization will raise. Some of the most-common objections and pitfalls have been identified (Segal and Moore, 2000): ...

PRIVATIZING LANDFILLS: MARKET SOLUTIONS FOR SOLID-WASTE DISPOSAL
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  • January 2000

... Litwiller & Brausch (2013) in a study among adolescents delineated violent behavior and substance abuse as mediating factors of the relationships between cyberbullying and suicidal behaviors. The impact of cyber bullying, as stated by Breguet (2007), is that the cyber bully victims are often friendless, lack confidence, and feel humiliated. Consequently, cyber bully victims often suffer from lowered self-esteem, hopelessness, depression and withdrawal (Patchin and Hinduja, 2007; Strom and Strom, 2005b). ...

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT FEDERAL
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... also showed that the average annual cost of facilities using the PBC method was significantly higher compared with the in-house workforce method. Studies showed that when the PBC approach is utilized for the first time, the cost may increase ); another reason for increased PBC costs may be due to the state DOT risks transferred to the contractor (Segal et al. 2003;NCHRP 2003;Martin 1993). A study also showed that when the PBC contract duration is short (fewer than 3 years), this approach may increase the cost ). ...

CONTRACTING FOR ROAD AND HIGHWAY
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... The main advantage of the DEA is that it does not require any assumption about efficient frontier functional form (Moore et al., 2003;Zhu & Zhang, 2019;Gennitsaris & Sofianopoulou, 2022;Molinos-Senante et al., 2023). On the other hand, the lack of this assumption implies that DEA efficiency scores are sensitive to sample variation and have no statistical properties. ...

Putting Out The Trash Measuring Municipal Service Efficiency in U.S. Cities

Urban Affairs Review

... Operators often follow historical patterns in places dating back to the colonial period, and studies have suggested the extent of spatial coverage and connectivity provided to different areas and populations can be limited and unequal. Operators may be overconcentrated on the densest corridors (Gomez-Lobo, 2007;Kerzhner, 2022b;Klein et al., 1997) while leaving other areas underserved, particularly lower-income neighborhoods and the urban periphery (Campbell et al., 2019;Nakamura & Avner, 2021;Peralta-Quiros et al., 2019). ...

Curb Rights Eliciting Competition and Entrepreneurship in Urban Transit
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  • December 2003

SSRN Electronic Journal