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We study how organizational boundaries affect pricing decisions using comprehensive data from a large U.S. airline. We …
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last decade. More than 30 years after domestic airline markets were deregulated, the dismal financial record is a puzzle …
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and estimate it using data on the airline industry in the United States. We find that airlines successfully renegotiate … fleet is low. Our results show that strategic renegotiation is common in the airline industry. Moreover, the results …
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. The turmoil in the U.S. airline industry has triggered much of the public policy discussion, as some observers have argued … and their rivals. The data suggest that an airline's prices typically decline somewhat before it files for bankruptcy … bankrupt airline lower their prices, however, nor that they lose passengers to their bankrupt rival. These results indicate …
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This papers analyzes dispersion in the prices that an airline charges to different customers on the same route. Such … variation in airlines fares is substantial: the expected absolute difference in fares between two of an airline's passengers on … a route averages thirty-six percent of the airline's average ticket price on the route. The pattern of price dispersion …
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We introduce a model of oligopoly dynamic pricing where firms with limited capacity face a sales deadline. We establish conditions under which the equilibrium is unique and converges to a system of differential equations. Using unique and comprehensive pricing and bookings data for competing...
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The Hub-and-Spoke network is a defining feature of the airline industry. This paper is among the first in the … merged airline would offer direct flights in 10% more markets while the overall post-merger price effect would likely be …
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We investigate the informativeness of hygiene signals in online reviews, and their effect on consumer choice and restaurant hygiene. We first extract signals of hygiene from Yelp. Among all dimensions that regulators monitor through mandated restaurant inspections, we find that reviews are more...
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dynamic airline pricing accounting for both sources of price adjustments using novel flight-level data. I use the model … estimates to evaluate the welfare effects of dynamic airline pricing. Relative to uniform pricing, dynamic pricing benefits …
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Increasing evidence indicates the importance of management in determining firms' productivity. Yet, causal evidence regarding the effectiveness of management practices is scarce, especially for high-skilled workers in the developed world. In an eight-month field experiment measuring the...
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