货运代理和承运人之间的价格歧视：来自集装箱航运业的证据

IF 6.3 2区工程技术 Q1 ECONOMICS

Transport Policy Pub Date : 2025-05-10 DOI:10.1016/j.tranpol.2025.05.005

Pierre Cariou , Haiying Jia , François-Charles Wolff

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摘要

货运代理通常在集装箱航运业中充当中介，促进托运人和承运人之间的预订和协商集装箱运费。本研究实证调查了这些货运代理与直接与承运人进行价格谈判的托运人相比是否存在价格歧视。该分析使用了一个独特的数据集，其中包括2018年至2023年期间约150万笔真实交易。结果表明，平均而言，货运代理在短期合同中获得5%的溢价，但在长期合同中获得3%的折扣。此外，这种溢价在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间更为明显，在2021-2022年达到18.1%的峰值。这一发现得到了可靠估计的证实，该估计将货运代理谈判的合同与托运人直接谈判的可比合同相匹配。

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Price discrimination between freight forwarders and carriers: Evidence from the container shipping industry

Freight forwarders often serve as intermediaries in the container shipping industry, facilitating reservations and negotiating container freight rates between shippers and carriers. This study empirically investigates whether these freight forwarders experience price discrimination compared to shippers who engage in direct price negotiations with carriers. The analysis uses a unique dataset consisting of approximately 1.5 million real-world transactions from 2018 to 2023. The results show that, on average, freight forwarders incur a 5 % premium for short-term contracts but receive a 3 % discount for long-term contracts. Moreover, the premium was more pronounced during the COVID-19 pandemic, peaking at 18.1 % in 2021–2022. This finding is corroborated by a robust estimation that matches contracts negotiated by freight forwarders with comparable contracts negotiated directly by shippers.

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来源期刊

Transport Policy Multiple-

CiteScore

12.10

自引率

10.30%

发文量

282

期刊介绍： Transport Policy is an international journal aimed at bridging the gap between theory and practice in transport. Its subject areas reflect the concerns of policymakers in government, industry, voluntary organisations and the public at large, providing independent, original and rigorous analysis to understand how policy decisions have been taken, monitor their effects, and suggest how they may be improved. The journal treats the transport sector comprehensively, and in the context of other sectors including energy, housing, industry and planning. All modes are covered: land, sea and air; road and rail; public and private; motorised and non-motorised; passenger and freight.