frequency, passenger connecting costs, airline endogenous hub location and route structure strategic competition. We find that …

choices of a monopoly airline. The analysis shows that switching to a hub-and-spoke network leads to increases in both flight …This paper provides a simple analysis of the effects of network structure on the scheduling, traffic, and aircraft size … preferred by the airline when travel demand is low, when flights are expensive to operate, and when passengers place a high …

This paper introduces a framework for joint hub network development. Building a joint physical hub for transhipment of … unlikely that an entire network will be built at once. Rather, the partners will have a more cautious attitude and build the … opportunity to decide whether or not they participate (and thus invest) in this network extension. The framework is also …

This paper offers the first formal economic analysis of carve-outs under airline antitrust im- munity. Carve-outs are …

This paper offers the first formal economic analysis of carve-outs under airline antitrust im- munity. Carve-outs are …

The domestic airline merger phenomenon of the late 1980s and early 1990s sparked a great deal of Industrial … competitive incentives helps explain domestic airline merger activity. A Cournot model of airline competition illustrates that …

In this paper, we study the hierarchical hub network design problem with a ring-star-star structure. In this problem … on the network. This problem applies to communication networks when establishing direct links between demand nodes is not …

imposed at selected U.S. airports in the relatively near future. The theory developed in this paper, which extends the results … theory says that the congestion tolls levied on the various airlines at a particular airport should generally be different …

airline's ability to segment the market and effectively set up the mixed network depends on the cost savings due to the …This paper analyzes conditions for co-existence of hub-and-spoke and point-to-point networks in the airline industry … entry with the new non-stop service where an incumbent is operating the hub-and-spoke network is possible. Including …

international network will typically not be regulated by the same authority; and (5) that an individual airline's network will not … analytical treatment for an undetermined number of nodes, links and operators in a network of undetermined size and shape, and … some numerical exercises for a small triangular network. Some main conclusions are that second-best optimal tolls are …