Garage and curbside parking competition with search congestion

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İnci, Eren and Lindsey, Robin C. (2015) Garage and curbside parking competition with search congestion. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 54 . pp. 49-59. ISSN 0166-0462

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Abstract

We consider a parking market with privately operated parking garages, publicly operated curbside parking, and drivers who differ in parking duration. In equilibrium, long-term and short-term parkers can allocate themselves to garages and curbside parking in various ways. The equilibrium is generally inefficient because garage operators exercise market power, and drivers have to search for curbside parking which creates a search cost externality. A city planner can achieve the social optimum without regulating garage prices if it can charge differentiated curbside parking fees. Many cities still have parking meters that can only levy uniform fees and it is very costly to replace them. However, numerical results show that the efficiency loss due to uniform pricing is modest in most cases.
Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled Keywords: Endogenous outside option; Parking; Price discrimination; Search costs; Spatial competition
Subjects: H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory
Divisions: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > Academic programs > Economics
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Depositing User: Eren İnci
Date Deposited: 27 Aug 2015 14:56
Last Modified: 26 Apr 2022 09:22
URI: https://research.sabanciuniv.edu/id/eprint/27069

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