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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
unbundling. The theory predicts that an airlineś fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009793154
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402515
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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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A refutation of "common ownership does not have anti-competitive effects in the airline industry"
Azar, José; Schmalz, Martin C.; Tecu, Isabel - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014289750
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The cost of well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizi, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
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The efficiency of educational production : a comparison of the Nordic countries with other OECD countries
Bogetoft Pedersen, Peter; Heinesen, Eskil; Tranæs, Torben - 2015
education. We use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to compare (benchmark) the Nordic countries with a relevant group of rich OECD …
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Super-efficiency of education institutions : an application to economics departments
Gnewuch, Matthias; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2018
This paper investigates the efficiency of 188 economics departments around the world using data from RePEc. We go beyond the heavily used data envelopment analysis and utilize partial frontier analysis - specifically order-α and order-m - which addresses some of the drawbacks of the standard...
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How to measure research efficiency in higher education? : research grants vs. publication output
Gralka, Sabine; Wohlrabe, Klaus; Bornmann, Lutz - 2018
An ongoing debate in the literature on efficiency of higher education institutions concerns the indicator for research output in the empirical analysis. While several studies chose to use the number of publications, others rely on the overall amount of research grants. The present study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853185
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Efficiency of European universities : a comparison of peers
Herberholz, Lars; Wigger, Berthold U. - 2020
The European higher education landscape has become increasingly integrated causing competition among universities that is no longer bound to national borders. In view of this development, the present paper investigates the relative efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014....
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