This paper examines the impact of introducing high-speed trains on consumer welfare using South Korean transportation industry data. The model treats the rail company's choice of train schedules as endogenous in order to take the firm's choices of product line into account. I estimate a model of...

This paper examines the impact of introducing high-speed trains on consumer welfare, taking the ensuing changes in train schedules into account. Based on the estimated demand model for travel which incorporates consumer's heterogeneous preferences for travel schedules into the standard...