Non-contractible quality dimensions are at risk of degradation when the provision of public services is privatized …. However, privatization may increase quality by fostering performance-improving innovation, particularly if combined with … opening to private provision affected mortality rates – an important and not easily contractible quality dimension – using a …

exports. Furthermore, empirical tests on the world airline industry elicit the existence of one particular path – an enhanced …

efficiency, taking into account the regulatory changes that have affected the European airline industry. We construct and …-reducing effort. Using a non-nested test and observations on the largest European airlines between 1985 and 1999, we show the …

airline industry using data for the period 1976–90. We perform a number of specification tests and reject a simple one …-cat strategy. In other words, European airlines over-invest in capacities in order to be less aggressive. Moreover, we find that …

regime between airlines and whether airports can price discriminate: airline concentration reduces the landing fee when … joint ownership of airports? Does airline countervailing power stop airports raising fees? Should airports be prohibited, as … an EU directive intends, from charging differential prices to airlines? Our major findings are: (a) an increase in …

Motivated by the higher price sensitivity and service homogenisation in the airline industry in recent years, we …. The assumption that airlines compete on price allows us to take advantage of the observational equivalence between … auctions, to recover the distributional characteristics of air fares using a sample of airline tickets from the US domestic …

models are used to explain empirical anomalies in the experience of the US airline market since deregulation. …One of the main aims of the deregulation of previously heavily regulated markets is to diminish artificial barriers to …