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Intermodal Competition in the Brazilian Interstate Travel Market
Economic Analysis Review
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Intermodal Competition in the Brazilian Interstate Travel Market
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Araújo Turolla, Frederico
Diniz Vassallo, Moisés VinÃcius Marques de Oliveira, Alessandro |
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| Description |
This paper presents a test of intermodal interaction between coaches and airlines in Brazil in order to check for the efficacy of recent liberalization measures designed to promote competition in both industries. Interstate travel service in the country is heavily provided by coaches, and the system is fully operated by the private sector under public delegation through permits and authorizations. Agency-based regulation was introduced in 2002 along with a price cap regime aimed at enhancing the flexibility to change fares in response to demand and cost conditions. By making use of a reaction function-based model of coach operators’ pricing decisions in the interstate travel market, we then estimate the sensitivity of the changes in coach fares to the changes in airline fares in a simultaneous-equation framework. Intermodal interaction among coach operators and airlines is found to be highly significant and probably due to the competition for a small but increasing set of premium, quality-sensitive, coach passengers.
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Universidad Alberto Hurtado - Facultad de Economía y Negocios
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2010-03-02
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info:eu-repo/semantics/article
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application/pdf
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http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/75
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Revista de Análisis Económico - Economic Analysis Review; Vol 23, No 1 (2008); 21-33
Revista de Análisis Económico – Economic Analysis Review; Vol 23, No 1 (2008); 21-33 0718-8870 0716-5927 |
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eng
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http://www.rae-ear.org/index.php/rae/article/view/75/145
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