last decade. More than 30 years after domestic airline markets were deregulated, the dismal financial record is a puzzle …

This paper evaluates various explanations for the profitability of momentum strategies documented in Jegadeesh and …

The purpose of this paper is to treat scale economies, profit-maximizing markups, economic profitability, capacity … run profit potential from markup behavior. As a result, on average economic profits are normal, but declining … profitability is prevalent in most industries since the early 1970s. Also, although cost and revenue shares tend to be approximately …

estimated. Using the full rainfall distribution and our profit function estimates, we find that Indian farmers on average under … expected profits. Farmers who use skilled forecasts have increased average profit levels but also have more variable profits …

Following a brief review of the U.S. domestic airline industry under regulation (1938-1978), we study the changes that … public policy issues facing the industry: (a) the sustainability of competition and volatility of airline profits, (b …

The airline industry's current financial crisis has raised concerns over the ramifications of airline bankruptcies for … air service offered, not the number of flights offered by a particular airline. We study all major U.S. airline … recognizing that competing airlines may increase service in response to a reduction in flights by a bankrupt airline. We do not …

. 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 …

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 …

We estimate a model of service choice and price competition in airline markets, allowing for the carriers that provide …