The residential parking rent price elasticity of car ownership in Japan
The residential parking rent price elasticity of car ownership in Japan
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日本汽车保有量的住宅停车位租金价格弹性
DOI：
10.1016/j.tra.2016.01.005
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发表时间：
2016
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通讯作者：
Yoshiki Yamagata
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作者：
Hajime Seya;Kumiko Nakamichi;Yoshiki Yamagata
本研究使用2004年全国家庭收支调查的家庭微观数据，对汽车保有量对住宅停车租金的价格弹性进行了评价。它分析了一个家庭拥有的汽车数量，使用各种属性，包括每月租用停车位的支出。由IV阶probit模型得出的估计结果表明，汽车拥有量的停车租金价格弹性的绝对值最多为0.48，这是相当小的（即，非弹性的）。弹性值因城市规模而异;对于特大城市，汽车拥有量的弹性始终为负，而对于中等或小城市、城镇和村庄，拥有一辆汽车的弹性为正，拥有多辆汽车的弹性为负。因此，当停车价格上涨时，一些人可能会从一辆以上的汽车转向一辆汽车，而特大城市的一些人可能会从一辆汽车转向零辆汽车。事实上，价格上涨的净效应可能是，特大城市的非汽车拥有量增加，其他城市的一辆汽车拥有量增加。
By using household-level micro data captured through the National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure for 2004, this study evaluates the residential parking rent price elasticity of car ownership in Japan. It analyzes the number of cars owned by a household, using various attributes including expenditure for renting a parking space on a monthly basis. The estimation results derived from the IV-ordered probit model show that the absolute value of parking rent price elasticity of car ownership is, at most, 0.48, which is fairly small (i.e., inelastic). The elasticity value varies depending on city size; for megacities, elasticity is always negative for car ownership, whereas for middle-sized or small cities, towns, and villages, elasticity is positive for one-car ownership and negative for the ownership of more than one car. Hence, when the price of parking increases, some people may switch from more than one car to one car and some people in megacities may switch from one to zero cars. Indeed, the net effect of a price increase may be that non-car ownership increases in megacities and one-car ownership increases in other cities.