Subsidios cruzados en los servicios aeronáuticos y en la red aeroportuaria de Chile
- Autores: Andrés Gómez Lobo, Aldo González
- Localización: Revista de análisis económico, ISSN-e 0718-8870, ISSN 0716-5927, Vol. 23, Nº 1, 2008, págs. 85-106
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
This paper investigates the structure of tariffs in civil aviation in Chile and the potential cross-subsidies that it generates. We estimate the crosssubsidies that currently exist in this transport networks and find that the current tariff structure generates a number of cross subsidies between airports. In particular, the airports of La Serena, Punta Arenas and Easter Island receive a cross subsidy from the rest of the network. We suggest that it may be beneficial to impose that airports in Chile must fund all their incremental costs. The intuition for this result, which follows from an old idea presented by Adam Smith, Coase and Vickrey, among others, is that the self-financing of airports, or at least their incremental costs, can be an effective mechanism to prevent overinvestment in infrastructure. In the light of this discussion and the results found in this study it would be advisable to review the structure of Aeronautical Tariffs in Chile.
