Is Regulation Necessary for Value-of-Service Pricing?
通过分析从未受监管的佛罗里达农产品卡车运输市场，发现每增加1美元日均货损，每车运费上涨11-12美分，证明服务价值定价在无监管下也存在，挑战了其依赖监管的普遍观点。
This article presents evidence for the existence of value-of-service pricing in the neverregulated market for trucking services to haul Florida produce. Rates per truckload are found to increase by eleven to twelve cents for every one dollar increase in the average daily loss in the value of the cargo due to product deterioration, ceteris paribus. This result is at variance with the commonly held belief that value-of-service pricing in transportation is a form of price discrimination made possible by the policies of rate bureaus and regulatory agencies.