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Carve-outs under airline antitrust immunity

Brueckner, Jan Keith; Proost, Stef - 2009

This paper offers the first formal economic analysis of carve-outs under airline antitrust im- munity. Carve-outs are designed to limit the potential anticompetitive effects of cooperation by alliance partners in hub-to-hub markets, where they provide overlapping nonstop service. While the paper...

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Control Aversion in Hierarchies

De Chiara, Alessandro; Engl, Florian; Herz, Holger; … - 2022

Companies typically control various aspects of their workers’ behaviors. In this paper, we investigate whether the … hierarchical distance of the superior who imposes such control measures matters for the workers’ ensuing reaction. In particular …, we test, in a laboratory experiment, whether potential negative behavioral reactions to imposed control are larger when …

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Is the Notification of Monitoring a Threat to the Unemployed? A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Cockx, Bart; Dejemeppe, Muriel - 2021

In July 2004, the Belgian government intensified monitoring within the Unemployment Insurance scheme. Workers claiming unemployment benefits for more than 13 months are notified that past job-search behavior will be monitored 8 months later. In one region the target group is counselled shortly...

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Bribery vs. Extortion : Allowing the Lesser of Two Evils

Khalil, Fahad; Lawarrée, Jacques; Yun, Sungho - 2021

Rewards to prevent supervisors from accepting bribes create incentives for extortion. This raises the question whether a supervisor who can engage in bribery and extortion can still be useful in providing incentives. By highlighting the role of team work in forging information, we present a...

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Airline Alliances and Service Quality

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2018

Convenient scheduling, characterized by adequate flight frequency, is the main quality attribute for airline services. However, the effect of airline alliances on this important dimension of service quality has received almost no attention in the literature. This paper fills this gap by...

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Future European Alliance - Europe as a Flexible Democracy

Frey, Bruno S. - 2019

A reasonable future for Europe can only be achieved if two essential elements are fulfilled: Firstly, newly established institutions must be democratic and have strong support from citizens rather than from national governments. Secondly, the large number of different ethnic, cultural,...

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Pricing by International Airline Alliances : A Retrospective Study Using Supplementary Foreign-Carrier Fare Data

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2019

This study provides further empirical evidence on pricing by international airline alliances. The paper covers a long sample period, which runs from 1997 to 2016, and it supplements the usual USDOT fare data with confidential fare data reported by the foreign alliance partners of US carriers....

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The Structure of Multinational Firms' International Activities

Davies, Ronald B. - 2020

The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...

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R&D Spillovers Through RJV Cooperation

Banal-Estañol, Albert - 2020

We investigate the dimensions through which R&D spillovers are propagated across firms via cooperation through Research Joint Ventures (RJVs). We build on the framework developed by Bloom et al. (2013) which considers the opposing effects of technology spillovers and product market rivalry, and...

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Optimal monitoring to implement clean technologies when pollution is random

Macho-Stadler, Inés; Pérez-Castrillo, David - 2007

We analyze a model where firms chose a production technology which, together with some random event, determines the final emission level. We consider the coexistence of two alternative technologies: a "clean" technology, and a "dirty" technology. The environmental regulation is based on taxes...

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