KENNETH D BOYER
Biographic Data
| ID | 5750353 |
|---|---|
| NAME | KENNETH D BOYER |
| GIVEN NAMES | KENNETH D |
| FAMILY NAME | BOYER |
| SIGNATURE | BOYER K D |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9726-7518 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
American Trucking, Nafta, and the Cost of Distance
As trucking replaced railroads as the basic form of freight transportation, the cost structure of the industry, which is essentially linear in distance, became the standard measure of economic distance. This led to a structure of economic geography that was much flatter and less malleable by public policy. The rise of trucking made the nation more compact and more featureless than it had been. In essence, trucking shrank and leveled the economic …
Equalizing Discrimination and Cartel Pricing in Transport Rate Regulation
There are two possible outcomes of transport regulation: (1) maintaining a carrier cartel and (2) imposing equalizing discrimination against advantaged and in favor of disadvantaged shippers. Both functions have required a complex rate structure to enforce the respective forms of price discrimination. Using a sample of freight bills from motor carriers and railroads, this paper demonstrates that the principal result of motor carrier regulation ha…
Minimum Rate Regulation, Modal Split Sensitivities, and the Railroad Problem
Contrary to popular opinion, the diversion of traffic from railroads to motor carriers has not been the result of minimum rate regulation. The idea that there is a large amount of misallocated traffic is based on the widespread but faulty method of analyzing intermodal competition by means of a simple cost comparison. The paper uses modal split analysis to show that the welfare gain accompanying minimum rate regulation will be modest. The welfare…
Informative and Goodwill Advertising
T HIS paper attempts to show that there is merit in the long-standing but much abused distinction between 'informative' and other types of advertising, and that this difference is revealed in a differential effect on economic performance. After a brief literature survey, section II develops a theoretical distinction between informative and goodwill advertising. Section III outlines a test of the hypothesis that the different kinds of advertising …
Equalizing Discrimination and Cartel Pricing in Transport Rate Regulation
There are two possible outcomes of transport regulation: (1) maintaining a carrier cartel and (2) imposing equalizing discrimination against advantaged and in favor of disadvantaged shippers. Both functions have required a complex rate structure to enforce the respective forms of price discrimination. Using a sample of freight bills from motor carriers and railroads, this paper demonstrates that the principal result of motor carrier regulation ha…
American Trucking, Nafta, and the Cost of Distance
As trucking replaced railroads as the basic form of freight transportation, the cost structure of the industry, which is essentially linear in distance, became the standard measure of economic distance. This led to a structure of economic geography that was much flatter and less malleable by public policy. The rise of trucking made the nation more compact and more featureless than it had been. In essence, trucking shrank and leveled the economic …
Informative and Goodwill Advertising
T HIS paper attempts to show that there is merit in the long-standing but much abused distinction between 'informative' and other types of advertising, and that this difference is revealed in a differential effect on economic performance. After a brief literature survey, section II develops a theoretical distinction between informative and goodwill advertising. Section III outlines a test of the hypothesis that the different kinds of advertising …
Minimum Rate Regulation, Modal Split Sensitivities, and the Railroad Problem
Contrary to popular opinion, the diversion of traffic from railroads to motor carriers has not been the result of minimum rate regulation. The idea that there is a large amount of misallocated traffic is based on the widespread but faulty method of analyzing intermodal competition by means of a simple cost comparison. The paper uses modal split analysis to show that the welfare gain accompanying minimum rate regulation will be modest. The welfare…
Equalizing Discrimination and Cartel Pricing in Transport Rate Regulation
There are two possible outcomes of transport regulation: (1) maintaining a carrier cartel and (2) imposing equalizing discrimination against advantaged and in favor of disadvantaged shippers. Both functions have required a complex rate structure to enforce the respective forms of price discrimination. Using a sample of freight bills from motor carriers and railroads, this paper demonstrates that the principal result of motor carrier regulation ha…
American Trucking, Nafta, and the Cost of Distance
As trucking replaced railroads as the basic form of freight transportation, the cost structure of the industry, which is essentially linear in distance, became the standard measure of economic distance. This led to a structure of economic geography that was much flatter and less malleable by public policy. The rise of trucking made the nation more compact and more featureless than it had been. In essence, trucking shrank and leveled the economic …
Economics (4 works) · Transport and Economic Policies (3 works) · Business (2 works) · Engineering (2 works) · Market economy (2 works) · Merger and Competition Analysis (2 works) · Microeconomics (2 works) · Accounting (1 works) · Accounting (1 works) · Advertising (1 works)