Bontemps, Christian, Martini, Gianmaria
and Porta, Flavio
(2024)
The Effects of LCCs Subsidies on the Tourism Industry.
TSE Working Paper, n. 24-1540, Toulouse
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Abstract
This paper studies the relationship between air transportation, tourist _ows, and subsidies to Low Cost Carriers (LCCs), a policy used by many national and local governments to stimulate tourist arrivals. To test the policy empirically, we use a two-stage empirical model. In the _rst stage, we estimate a structural model applied to air transport, and in the second stage, we link passenger arrivals to regional tourism _ows. In this way, we use exogenous shocks (subsidies to LCCs) in airline supply to analyze the causal link with tourist arrivals. This model is applied to tourist _ows from European regions to Italian regions from 2016 to 2018. Our counterfactual analyses consider two regimes for implementing subsidies to LCCs, following the literature coming from Oates (1993, 1999) contributions: a centralized, uniform policy for all regions and a decentralized policy in which subsidies are adopted by a single region. Our simulations reveal that subsidies to LCCs are e_ective in stimulating tourism, and that a centralized regime is more e_ective than a decentralized one. In fact, the latter generates externalities in regions that do not implement the subsidy, making the decentralised policy economically sub-optimal and unsustainable.
Item Type: | Monograph (Working Paper) |
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Language: | English |
Date: | May 2024 |
Place of Publication: | Toulouse |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Air transportation and tourism, Structural model |
JEL Classification: | O18 - Regional, Urban, and Rural Analyses R41 - Transportation - Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise R48 - Government Pricing; Regulatory Policies |
Subjects: | B- ECONOMIE ET FINANCE |
Divisions: | TSE-R (Toulouse) |
Institution: | Université Toulouse Capitole |
Site: | UT1 |
Date Deposited: | 31 May 2024 08:18 |
Last Modified: | 31 May 2024 08:18 |
OAI Identifier: | oai:tse-fr.eu:129352 |
URI: | https://publications.ut-capitole.fr/id/eprint/49440 |