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Merger Policy in Digital Markets: An Ex-Post Assessment

Argentesi, Elena; Buccirossi, Paolo; Calvano, Emilio; … - 2019

This paper presents a broad retrospective evaluation of mergers and merger decisions in the digital sector. We first … investigated mergers and whether a more effective merger control regime can be achieved within the current legal framework. …

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Product Unbundling in the Travel Industry: The Economics of Airline Bag Fees

Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Darin N.; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2013

This paper provides theory and evidence on airline bag fees, offering insights into a real-world case of product unbundling. The theory predicts that an airline's fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price (the bag fee plus the new fare) could either rise or...

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Airline emission charges: effects on airfares, service quality, and aircraft design

Brueckner, Jan Keith; Zhang, Anming - 2009

features, and network structure, using a detailed and realistic theoretical model of competing duopoly airlines. These impacts …

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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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Coordinated Capacity Reductions and Public Communication in the Airline Industry

Aryal, Gaurab; Ciliberto, Federico; Leyden, Benjamin T. - 2020

We investigate whether legacy U.S. airlines communicated via earnings calls to coordinate with other legacy airlines in … among airlines about their capacity choices. Estimates from our preferred specification show that when all legacy airlines … reduction materializes only when airlines communicate concurrently, and that it cannot be explained by other possibilities …

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Airline Schedule Buffers and Flight Delays: A Discrete Model

Brueckner, Jan K.; Czerny, Achim I.; Gaggero, Alberto A. - 2020

This paper revisits the airline schedule-buffer choice problem analyzed by Brueckner, Czerny and Gaggero (2020) using a simpler model where the random shocks influencing flight times are discrete rather than continuous. The analysis yields closed-form solutions for the flight and ground buffers...

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A Refutation of "Common Ownership Does Not Have Anti-Competitive Effects in the Airline Industry"

Azar, José; Schmalz, Martin; Tecu, Isabel; Schmalz, … - 2022

We show that the main claim in Dennis, Gerardi, and Schenone (JF forthcoming) (DGS), namely "that the documented positive correlation between common ownership and ticket prices stems from the market share component of the common ownership measure, and not the ownership and control components,"...

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How Do Airlines Cut Fuel Usage, Reducing Their Carbon Emissions?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023

how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this …

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European Airline Mergers, Alliance Consolidation, and Consumer Welfare

Brueckner, Jan K.; Pels, Eric - 2004

-KLM and SkyTeam alliances into a single mega-alliance. The results of the analysis show that, although the airlines benefit …

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Measuring strategic firm interaction in product-quality choices: The case of airline flight frequency

Brueckner, Jan K.; Luo, Dan - 2013

This paper investigates strategic interaction among airlines in product-quality choices. Using an instrumental … its own characteristics and to the frequencies of competing airlines. A positive reaction function slope is found in some …

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