This paper provides the first analysis of the trade-off between convenient flight connections and airport congestion. A …

The likely resurgence of air traffic in the U.S. means that airport congestion is a problem that must soon be … theory says that the congestion tolls levied on the various airlines at a particular airport should generally be different …, with the tolls being inversely related to a carrier s airport flight share. Internalization of airport congestion is the …

Conventional economic models in airport regulation assume, that airports have considerable market power and may exploit … duopsony on the outcome of several regulatory options. Our results show, that in such cases the binding conditions for airport … charges may change and, hence, optimal airport regulation should take into account also the degree of mono- or oligopsony …