Gilligan, Thomas W.; Marshall, William J.; Weingast, … - In: RAND Journal of Economics 21 (1990) 2, pp. 189-210
This article concerns the economic incidence of the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 (ICA). Our focus is the short-haul pricing constraint, a provision of the ICA that prohibited railroads from charging higher rates to isolated, primarily agrarian shippers than it charged to intercity shippers of...