Competition and Price Discrimination in International Transportation
dc.contributor.author | Ignatenko, Anna | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-14T11:22:30Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-05-14T11:22:30Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-05 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0804-6824 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/11250/3130324 | |
dc.description.abstract | This paper documents price discrimination by transport companies, revealing their market power. Larger shipments of similar products sharing a container receive lower prices. A trade model with non-linear pricing of transportation rationalizes this with economies of scale and price discrimination, highlighting their distinct policy implications. To distinguish them, I test for the effect of competition on freight price variation specific to price discrimination. Using unexpected water level changes to instrument for competition in river transportation, I find increased competition causes steeper discounts for larger shipments. Thus, market power in transportation is less distortionary for larger firms gaining additional cost advantages. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | DP SAM;06/2024 | |
dc.subject | price discrimination | en_US |
dc.subject | quantity discounts | en_US |
dc.subject | transportation | en_US |
dc.subject | competition | en_US |
dc.subject | economies of scale | en_US |
dc.subject | mark-ups | en_US |
dc.subject | market power | en_US |
dc.title | Competition and Price Discrimination in International Transportation | en_US |
dc.type | Working paper | en_US |
dc.subject.nsi | Samfunnsvitenskap | en_US |
dc.source.pagenumber | 59 | en_US |
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