Aims and Effects of Public Financial Support for Passenger Transport : Report of the Sixty-Seventh Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 10-11 May 1984

Aims and Effects of Public Financial Support for Passenger Transport Report of the Sixty-Seventh Round Table on Transport Economics Held in Paris on 10-11 May 1984

This Round Table examines the aims and effects of public subsidies for passenger transport.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
Corporate Authors: European Conference of Ministers of Transport (-), Round Table on Transport Economics (content provider), European Conference on Ministers of Transport Economic Research Centre. Content Provider
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Paris : OECD Publishing 1984.
Series:ECMT Round Tables, no.67.
Subjects:
Transport
Local transit > Congresses > Fares
Local transit > Congresses > Cost of operation
Local transit > Finance > Congresses
Business & Economics
Transportation Economics
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009706276906719
Table of Contents:
  • INTRODUCTORY REPORT
  • Aims and Effect of Public Financial Support for Passenger Transport by K. M. Gwilliam, United Kingdom
  • -1. Market failures, subsidy and welfare maximisation
  • 2. Monopoly, regulation and cross-subsidy
  • 3. Externalities and transport subsidies as a second best
  • 4. Economies of scale
  • 5. Imperfect information 
  • 6. Public goods: Option values
  • 7. Efficiency effects of subsidy
  • 8. Subsidies and redistribution 
  • 9. Subsidy and management objectives
  • 10. Warranges for subsidy
  • 11. Conclusions and recommendations
  • Bibliography
  • SUMMARY OF THE DISCUSSION
  • LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

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