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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.; … - CESifo - 2013
unbundling. The theory predicts that an airline’s fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877747
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Measuring Strategic Firm Interaction in Product-Quality Choices: The Case of Airline Flight Frequency
Brueckner, Jan K.; Luo, Dan - CESifo - 2013
This paper investigates strategic interaction among airlines in product-quality choices. Using an instrumental … variables approach, the paper estimates flight-frequency reaction functions, which relate an airline’s frequency on a route to … its own characteristics and to the frequencies of competing airlines. A positive reaction function slope is found in some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877953
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Carve-Outs under Airline Antitrust Immunity
Brueckner, Jan K.; Proost, Stef - CESifo - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008533998
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Airline Emission Charges: Effects on Airfares, Service Quality, and Aircraft Design
Brueckner, Jan K.; Zhang, Anming - CESifo - 2009
features, and network structure, using a detailed and realistic theoretical model of competing duopoly airlines. These impacts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094276
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European Airline Mergers, Alliance Consolidation, and Consumer Welfare
Brueckner, Jan K.; Pels, Eric - CESifo - 2004
-KLM and SkyTeam alliances into a single mega-alliance. The results of the analysis show that, although the airlines benefit …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005196317