Striking evidence? Demand persistence for inter-city buses from German railway strikes

Arbeitspapier

This paper investigates the effect of the largest rail strikes in German history in 2014-2015 on long-distance buses - a newly liberalized market. Using a novel dataset of detailed bus ticket sales and rail cancellations, I find that the primary channel that drives ticket sales during the strike is whether the absolute bus travel time was sufficiently short. In a difference-indifferences framework, I exploit this variation to identify any demand persistence. Although the common trend assumption does not seem to be completely tenable in the given context, my results point to a persistent effect on the ticket sales for inter-city buses on the affected routes.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Munich Discussion Paper ; No. 2017-2

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Railroads and Other Surface Transportation ; Transportation: Demand, Supply, and Congestion; Travel Time; Safety and Accidents; Transportation Noise ; Methodology for Collecting, Estimating, and Organizing Microeconomic Data; Data Access
• Thema: Transportation ; Long-Run Demand Effects ; Intermodal Substitution ; Strike

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Beestermöller, Matthias
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät
• (wo): München
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• DOI: doi:10.5282/ubm/epub.31768
• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/162380
• URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-31768-4
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ