Study On China’s Air Transport Market Access Policy And Its Competitive Performance

Government regulation is a common and indispensable means of economic intervention in market economy countries,and is also a global phenomenon.For some industries,government regulation was gradually relaxed.But there were also dynamic changes of government regulation,such as strengthened regulation and re-regulation.Worldwide,the exploration of air transport market access regulation reform is also reflected in the dynamic change of regulation and relaxation.With the development of technology and the transfer of national political policy priorities,the air transport market competition environment and government regulation have become more and more noteworthy.How to improve the effectiveness of the policy implementation has become the government regulation reform needs to focus on the core of the problem.Based on the theory of government regulation,this paper constructs a theoretical analysis framework and causes,means and objectives of air transport market access policies.From the two dimensions of subject access regulation and airline time access regulation,this paper summarizes the literature on the influence mechanism of market access policy on market competition performance.Then,this paper summarizes and sorts out China’s air transport player,route,and time access regulation policies since 1980,and made a quantitative analysis.In addition,this paper also made a comparative analysis and experience reference with the United States and the European Union.Then a theoretical model is constructed based on the objective function of government market access regulation and the three-stage dynamic game model.The relationship between the government market access regulation relaxation and policy objectives is demonstrated from the theoretical level.Through different econometric models for empirical analysis,the research results show that:(1)The loosening of market access and route access has a promoting effect on improving the degree of market competition,the increase of total transportation turnover,and the increase of total industry revenue;When the market competition performance is affected,loosening the access regulation of market players positively promotes the positive impact of the airline time access regulation on the market competition performance;Similarly,loosening the time-of-access regulation of airlines positively promotes the positive impact of market access regulation on market competition performance;(3)Restricting private capital to enter the market will inhibit the increase of total transportation turnover,but the effect on the degree of market competition and the total revenue is not significant;Decentralization of administrative approval authority and shortening administrative approval time can significantly promote the promotion of market competition,the increase of the transportation turnover and revenue.Finally,the following suggestions are put forward:(1)Decentralize power,optimize and reduce the approval process,and shorten the time for administrative examination and approval;(2)Pay attention to set the access conditions related to ensuring the long-term operation ability of airlines;(3)Strengthen the policy protection tendency for small and medium-sized enterprises and new entrants;(4)We will strive to integrate domestic policies with international policies or rules,so as to ensure that these policies have a long-term and broad impact for implementation.