Tariff protection and port privatization: An import-competing approach

Choi, Kangsik; Lim, Seonyoung

doi:10.1057/s41278-016-0004-1

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“…In a non-Mediterranean area, in Brazil, talks for the continuation of the privatization process for the port of Santos have taken place once more [21]. On the other hand, there are several studies suggesting that there are cases where privatization does not always lead to more efficient ports and that the role of the public sector is significant (e.g., [3,15,22,23]).…”

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A Study of the Efficiency of Mediterranean Container Ports: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Moschovou

Kapetanakis

2023

CivilEng

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The current paper presents the results of a study that analyzed and evaluated the efficiency of the largest container ports in the wider area of the Mediterranean Basin. The research question that this paper seeks to respond to is how the resources (inputs) of a container port reflect its level of activity and efficiency. In particular, what is the relationship between ports’ infrastructures, equipment and their productivity and the ports’ ability to attract economic activities as well as the extent of their effect on a port’s efficiency? The methodology uses the data envelopment analysis (DEA) output-oriented model following a cross-sectional approach. The research conducts two modeling approaches, the CCR and the BCC model. The analysis goes deeper and compares port efficiency estimates in relation to medium-sized and large ports’ classification and their total market share. The main findings indicated an average efficiency of 0.88 and 0.89 assuming constant and variable returns of scale, respectively, implying that the ports can increase their output levels up to approximately 1.2 times without any change in their inputs.

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Section: Ports Economic Development and Privatizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Study of the Efficiency of Mediterranean Container Ports: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Moschovou

Kapetanakis

2023

CivilEng

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“…Recently, the research on port privatization has also attracted much scholarly attention. This can be mainly divided into two categories: theoretical research ( 7 , 8 , 36–38 ) and empirical research ( 11 , 33 , 39 , 40 ).…”

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“…Matsushima and Takauchi ( 36 ) investigated the effects of port privatization on port usage fees, firm profits, and welfare through changes in the port objectives, yet without considering the scenario of partial privatization. Choi and Lim ( 37 ) presented a theoretical investigation on tariff protection and port privatization and revealed that under the trade tariff system, the welfare of the home country’s choice of port privatization is always greater. Cui and Notteboom ( 7 ) explored the different interactions between mixed duopoly ports to which emission taxes and port privatization are implemented.…”

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Port Competition and Cooperation Under Emission and Privatization

Yuan

Wang

2022

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation R

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The study considers the competition and cooperation between mixed duopoly ports with service differentiation when both emission tax and partial privatization policies are implemented together. By developing three-game models between government and port enterprises, this paper first studies and compares, under different game scenarios, the optimal emission tax for mixed duopoly ports and privatization level for a semipublic port, as well as the optimal output (or pricing) and emission reduction of semipublic and private ports. Moreover, the profit and utility of the two ports, environment damage, consumer surplus, and social welfare are also compared, and the impacts of technology spillover for emission reduction and service differentiation on the decision-making of the government and port enterprises are discussed. We find that the optimal emission tax under a strategic cooperation scenario can reach a higher level, then the government needs more efforts to protect the environment. In addition, although port cooperation is conducive to maximizing social welfare and increasing port throughput, it harms the profitability of the two ports.

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“…Thus, this study focuses on the interaction of organizational forms between transport costs and port ownership structures, which explains below. Moreover, several policy changes have affected the structure of port ownership (i.e., privatization or public ownership; Matsushima and Takauchi, 2014;Choi and Lim, 2018), as well as the effects of trade policies on the transport sector, given endogenous transport costs Tarui, 2018, 2021). Specifically, Matsushima and Takauchi (2014) investigated the effects of port privatization on transport cost, port usage fees, and welfare, where the model consists of an international duopoly with two ports and two markets 2 .…”

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Endogenous organization form and trade costs

Choi

2023

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We ananlyze the endogenous firms' choice of organization form in the presence of endogenous freight rates, port fees with the public (or asymmetric) port ownership. We found that regardless of port ownership, one firm provides corporate incentives (i.e., U-form), and other firm provides divisional incentives (i.e., M-form). Thus, choosing U-form (resp. M-form) in the asymmetric organization for firm and producer surplus is profitable (resp. unprofitable), but for the government and consumer surplus is socially undesirable (resp. desirable). Furthermore, we present some extensions to check the robustness of the obtained results. JEL Classi cation: D43, F12, F13, L13, M16.

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Tariff protection and port privatization: An import-competing approach

Cited by 10 publications

References 29 publications

A Study of the Efficiency of Mediterranean Container Ports: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

A Study of the Efficiency of Mediterranean Container Ports: A Data Envelopment Analysis Approach

Port Competition and Cooperation Under Emission and Privatization

Endogenous organization form and trade costs

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