全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP6185 Is the Regulation of the Transport Sector Always Detrimental to Consumers?

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP6185
	DP6185 Is the Regulation of the Transport Sector Always Detrimental to Consumers?
	Jacques-François Thisse; Carl Gaigné; Kristian Behrens
发表日期	2007-03-09
出版年	2007
语种	英语
摘要	The aim of this paper is to qualify the claim that regulating a competitive transport sector is always detrimental to consumers. We show indeed that, although transport deregulation is beneficial to consumers as long as the location of economic activity is fixed, this is no longer true when, in the long run, firms and workers are freely mobile. The reason is that the static gains due to less monopoly power in the transport sector may well map into dynamic dead-weight losses because deregulation of the transport sector leads to more inefficient agglomeration. This latter change may, quite surprisingly, increase consumer prices in some regions, despite a more competitive transport sector. Transport deregulation is shown to map into aggregate consumer welfare losses and more inequality among consumers in the long run.
主题	Industrial Organization
关键词	Transport deregulation Transport sector Imperfect competition Economic geography Interregional trade
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp6185
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535017
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jacques-François Thisse,Carl Gaigné,Kristian Behrens. DP6185 Is the Regulation of the Transport Sector Always Detrimental to Consumers?. 2007.