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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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Not All Incentives Wash Out the Warm Glow : The Case of Blood Donation Revisited

Costa-Font, Joan - 2011

The issue of the nature of the altruism inherent in blood donation and the perverse effects of financial rewards for blood and/or organ donation has been recently revisited in the economic literature with limited consensus. As Titmuss (1970) famously pointed out, providing monetary incentives to...

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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012

Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...

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Earnings Shocks and Tax-Motivated Income-Shifting : Evidence from European Multinationals

Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2012

This paper presents a new approach to estimating the existence and magnitude of tax-motivated income shifting within multinational corporations. Existing studies of income shifting use changes in corporate tax rates as a source of identification. In contrast, this paper exploits exogenous...

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On Creditor Seniority and Sovereign Bond Prices in Europe

Steinkamp, Sven - 2013

The recent increase of interest rate spreads in Europe and their apparent detachment from underlying fundamental …

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Persistence and Cyclical Dependence in the Monthly Euribor Rate

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013

This paper analyses two well-known features of interest rates, namely their time dependence and their cyclical structure. Specifically, it focuses on the monthly Euribor rate, using monthly data from January 1994 to May 2011. Models based on fractional integration at the long run or zero...

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