Der deutsche Taximarkt – das letzte (Kollektiv-)Monopol im Sturm der „neuen Zeit“

Annika Pape and Wein Thomas ()
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Wein Thomas: Leuphana University of Lueneburg, Institute of Economics, Competition and Regulation Institute, Scharnhorststraße 1, 21335 Lüneburg

Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2015, vol. 64, issue 3, 362-392

Abstract: Smartphone-Apps and web-based tools improve the transparency of taxi rides with regard to prices and routing. These technical innovations reduce asymmetric information. Hence, obligatory knowledge tests of streets and important places are no longer necessary. However, the provision of taxis may yield a waiting externality. Empirically the regulator takes the costs, structures into account and, therefore, acts for the purpose of public interests. Nonetheless, the population variable seems questionable. The reasons for the puzzling results might refer to different perceptions with regard to waiting time in sparsely populated areas.

Keywords: market entry; change in the market for taxi services; public interest versus regulatory capture; Markteintritt; Wandel im Taximarkt; öffentliches Interesse gegen behördliche Vereinnahmung (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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