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Price discrimination in the transport industry and the gains from trade

Zheng Han

The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development: an international and comparative review2025https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2025.2471064article
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Shipping companies often charges nonlinear and discriminatory pricing for transportation. This paper shows that this nonlinear and discriminatory pricing in the shipping industry could hamper the welfare gains from trade due to withinindustry allocation across heterogeneous firms. I extend a standard heterogeneous firm trade model with variable markups by incorporating monopolistically competitive shipping companies that charge nonlinear and discriminatory pricing against manufacturers. In a standard setting, shipping companies optimally charge a higher transport price to the more productive firms, weakening within-industry reallocation toward productive firms. Elimination of this discriminatory practice could potentially increase the gains from trade.

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@article{zheng2025,
  title        = {{Price discrimination in the transport industry and the gains from trade}},
  author       = {Zheng Han},
  journal      = {The Journal of International Trade and Economic Development: an international and comparative review},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1080/09638199.2025.2471064},
}

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0.37

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.16 × 0.4 = 0.06
M · momentum0.53 × 0.15 = 0.08
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

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