Is the Regulation of The Transport Sector Always Detrimental to Consumers?
2007/01/02
研討會日期 : 2007-01-02
時間 : 15:00
主講人 : Jacques-Francois Thisse
地點 : B棟110會議室
演講者簡介 : Thisse教授目前為歐洲著名經濟研究院CORE之院長，並為比利時魯汶大學講座教授，為一國際知名教授，並為Fellow of Econometric Society (1992), Fellow of the Centre for Economic Policy Research (1992), Fellow of the Regional Science Association International (2003), Fellow of the European Economic Association (2004)，迄今已出版了3本書，主編10本書，並在產業經濟、區域經濟、都市經濟、區位理論、國際貿易理論、賽局理論、公共經濟、勞動經濟、管理科學等領域共發表了近250篇期刊論文，這些論文有不少是發表在Econometrica, JPE, JET, REStud, Rand Journal, JPublicE, IER, JIE, Game and Economic Behavior, JME, JUE, RSUE, EER, IJIO等各領域之傑出期刊，同時，他目前也擔任許多著名期刊之Associate editors。
演講摘要 : 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.
